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Institutions were meant to extend balance beyond great powers, to smaller states with no leverage.
So if those institutions are weakened or weaponized, who exactly benefits, and how does that improve the overall condition of humanity?
Decentralized systems still concentrate power, they just do it informally, locally, without visibility or accountability.
Eliminating institutions does not remove the nexus of power, it just relocates it to actors with fewer constraints and less scrutiny.
If winners are always cheaters who did not get caught, then weakening shared rules only selects for better cheaters, not better outcomes. At least institutions create friction, records, and points of contestation. Without them, power does not disappear, it simply becomes cruder and harder to challenge.
The claim that centralization is uniquely corrupt assumes fragmentation produces virtue.
History suggests it mostly produces unchecked local coercion and chaos, not justice.
But we see how exactly the opposite has happened, and Russia is giving up its sovereignty in favor of China.