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Someone mentioned existence and uniqueness of Haar measure on a locally compact topological group. But if one uses the Riesz representation theorem and Tychonoff, the standard proof is not so long or hard, and may even be considered conceptual. For example a clear proof is in Bourbaki's Integration, and in Principles of Harmonic Analysis [by Deitmar and Echterhoff].

I think

the Riesz representation theorem (about the dual of $C_c(X)$)

is more often used as a Blackbox theorem. Of course this is a main result in analysis, and many standard books (Rudin, Folland, Appendix of Conway's Functional analysis) have a proof, but they are all long and technical, and in my opinion very difficult to remember. See also Remark 4 in these wonderful notes by Terry Tao.