Keep in mind, this is the country that Rob Reiner kowtows to in order to get his films distributed. This is the country the NBA prefers to partner with. This is the country whose whims Facebook and Google bend over backward to satisfy. Maybe the Soviets were right, we can be sold the rope to hang us with, they just didn’t have quite enough money to get the job done.
It’s also a country with over two thousand years of treating itself and it’s people like dirt. I’ve no sympathy for them.