Amazing how these thugocracies parallel the structure and methods of the Mafia. Top guy is never secure.
Beyond true. Friend/colleague of mine was detailed off by the big brass to manage an assembly plant in China in the early '00s. Five years there. His succinct appraisal of China was that nothing, NOTHING is free of corruption there, right down to street cleaning. He said that there is not even a word in Mandarin for the Western concept of ethics. Why would there be? Ethics is one of the uniquely Christian concepts that led to the great rise of Western culture. Without it, the only law is the law of the jungle.
Meanwhile, in America, Speaker Pelosi cowers behind fences, barbwire and thousands of National Guard troops.