There is a point where corporate wealth and even •individual• wealth can grow so large that private entities can function like state actors, complete with their own diplomatic wings, intelligence apparatuses, election interference, control of vassal states, and proxy wars. We are not approaching that point. We are long, long •past• that point. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/afd-thanks-elon-musk-german-state-elections-2026-win