Deflecting to highlight the corruption in Russia while never ever once highlighting the utter corruption of Ukraine. Typical. Truth be told, the deflection is more akin to changing the topic off of high Ukraine is imploding militarily....given that vaunted million man army never materialized, Ukraine has resorted to recruiting handcapps, the elderly, the mythical Kherson offensive did not happen as foretold and will not happen, Ukrainian tanks. planes, and artillery are nearly exhausted, half the HIMARs sent by the US are destroyed, the German artillery sent is sh*t, etc., etc. Ukrainian pin pricks won’t win this conflict nor turn the tide of its inevitability.
Think about it - Russia is a much larger (by 3X in population), more so in per-capita developed resource value, in GDP, in exports, in military budget per capita, in military infrastructure, stockpiles, production, technology, etc. and etc.
And most important, the degree to which it is a potential or actual threat to its neighbors - a function of its size in all dimensions, as above.
Nobody fears Ukraine. Its corruption (to the degree it is as corrupt as Russia, if it is, no such assertions are proven, the usual rating agencies say Russia is worse), is on a vastly smaller scale (because, as above, Ukraine is so much smaller in every dimension) and has no bearing on its potential threat to anyone else.
Russia matters, and if its military is crippled by corruption that is of interest to everyone. That has global strategic and political implications.
Western groupthink about Ukraine has peaked, a demonstration of the insanity of crowds. Decisions have inertia, it seems in proportion to how bad they are. The human ability to reject reality over emotions is a cognitive defect on the front lines of natural selection. It must have been that kamikaze thinking was a competitive advantage for group survival at some point.