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by samvega_ 1769 days ago
This is one of those things westerners say to make themselves feel better: corruption is what the foreign oligarch are perpetrating. Considering that the Afghanistan war was used to funnel 2 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex at the cost of tens of thousands of civilian lives (not to speak of the Iraq war), it's pathetically chauvinistic to keep focussing on the ghost of foreign corruption, of which one is served with information with the greatest confidence from the absolutely most biased source imaginable.