We are learning the difference between Russian style corruption and American style.
* In America a friend of a Congressman gets $100 million dollars for a $50 million dollar job of supplying tires to the army. Someone still checks to make sure our trucks have working tires.
* In Russia a friend of Putin gets a $100 million dollars for a $50 million dollar job of supplying tires to the army. $5 million of that goes to buy some used Chinese tires, another $10 million goes to bribe the guy in charge of checking the tires. The rest is profit.
That is a very good example. I have been in countries with rampant corruption and was told the Americans did it too.
I used the Mafia example. The Mafia took a small percentage of everyone’s profit, allowing the host to survive and keep producing. African and Asian corruption bleeds the host dry, and then kills it to sell the parts. They use the money to provide themselves a bugout location, going there when the host gets wise to what is going on.
Look at all the ex-presidents and warlords who won houses in California. The West Africans like Jamaica and England for their bugout locations.