Absolute power not only corrupts absolutely but also produces results — a dangerous transformation evident across history. In antiquity, power was exercised physically through conquest, enslavement, and tribute, exerting direct control over land, resources, and bodies. It was checked only by rebellion or collapse. Today, absolute power operates through more seamless, systemic channels: the unchallengeable influence of digital platforms, the legal impunity of surveillance states, the sheer force of global capital, and the weaponisation of information to shape reality itself.

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The modern aspirant to supremacy no longer needs to declare himself a god-king. As demonstrated by the trajectory of President Donald Trump, dominance can be achieved by controlling the systems that shape public discourse and the legal frameworks that legitimise authority — all in the name of democracy. Absolute power in the digital age aims not merely to crush opposition, but to render it invisible, or complicit in its own subjugation. Indeed, America is being made great again…!

This evolution is mirrored in the deliberate erosion of the very systems designed to contain such power. The United Nations, the long-standing pillar of the post-war rules-based order, is in profound and possibly terminal crisis. Conflicts from Ukraine to Gaza have not tested the system but revealed its paralysis. What was once a post-war compromise has become a kill switch, transforming the body from a forum for collective security into a theatre of functional obsolescence.

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