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“They made their beds by gettin in bed with the Uniparty traitors.”

Here is where a lack of perspective, or experience outside the US, becomes a problem.

All governments anywhere have to deal with the US. The US is such a huge deal in the world that everyone wants or needs something from the US - or the US wants something from them. Some more than others. ALL of them have to deal with whomever is in charge of the USG at the time. Nobody can avoid the US when its government changes.

Almost all foreign bribery and other skullduggery, btw, is solicited by US politicians and officials. If its a matter of leaning on people, its the Americans that lean on people. The US is the biggest banana republic thats ever been. Its officials are notorious everywhere.

NO government anywhere wants to get caught in a US partisan controversy, because they are likely to be in the crosshairs of the next US government, the press, or public opinion, drummed up from one side or another. Nobody needs that

What happened to Ukraine is that it got caught in these crosshairs because of circumstances - Democrat partisan warfare vs Trump focused on when Trump spoke to Ukrainians - it could just as easily have been Russia or China, in the Biden case. So some unsophisticated (to be kind) people on the pro-Trump side somehow got Ukraine fixed in their minds. Ukraine is an innocent bystander (ok, paying bribes, but still, its SOP) in all this.

EVERYBODY on Earth pays off US officials, directly or indirectly. The Saudis owned the Bushes. The Clintons really were deep in Russian payoff schemes through their foundation. Obama was paid ridiculous sums by the Germans (via Bertelsman). And smaller fish also down the line. The Bidens were petty grifters as far as this goes. Small fry.