My system seems broken and I can't update

Maybe, maybe not. All I can say is, this can be very interesting.

@Vlas, if that doesn’t work, I suggest you use pacman-static, because:

Using pacman-static

pacman-staticAUR is a statically compiled version of pacman, so it will be able to run even when the libraries on the system are not working. This can also come in handy when a partial upgrade was performed and pacman can not run anymore.

More here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman

Under Manually reinstalling pacman section.

Also, this will probably be of help:

And

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