Dictators and democrats around the world would have been aware that they were witnessing the irreversible decline of the sole superpower in the shocking live footage of armed mobs rampaging through the US Capitol, the seat of the legislative branch of the world’s most powerful democracy, which left four people dead. More so, when this astonishing attack on the heart of America’s democracy was incited by a sitting president of the United States, the world’s most powerful leader. After a delayed joint session of Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the next president, a formality in presidential transitions for over two

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