And U.S. politicians are not corrupt? And what about their propaganda machine—the mainstream news media; does anybody thing that’s not corrupt?
Beast, scale must also be counted! Putin’s mafia state is on thousand times the scale that the very real problems you see in your neighborhood. Doesn’t mean everything else is fine, but a bullet to your head is not the same as dust to your eye, even though both are unpleasant.
I don’t think the corruption of one cancels out the corruption of the other. I remember well the Liberals who used to tell us that we - the USA - were no better than the USSR. They drew moral equivalencies when there were none. Now, in the age when a phony conservative like Trump can claim with cant and claptrap that he’s one of us - we have “conservatives” that see the USA as no better than Putin’s Russia. It’s too bad that you’re unable to appreciate what is great about our country. We will overcome our problems, but it won’t be because we succumb to the despair of believing the USA is just as corrupt as Russia.