Taking the Ring for oneself would entail breaking Sauron utterly. After doing this, I believe the Ring would probably be useless. I'll explain. Power is the ability to effect one's will. Spiritually speaking, power is an abstract concept, and I believe that without any particular "device" defined as the effector, we could consider "power" synonymous with "will". The power within the Ring was Sauron, so to break the will of the Ring is to overcome Sauron himself. In other words, to 'use the Ring against Sauron' did not mean that the usurper would shoot beams of power from the Ring and destroy Sauron. It meant that the claiming of the Ring, if ultimate, would, in itself, defeat Sauron. The outcome would be the same as the physical destruction of the Ring.
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