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by paganel 719 days ago
A high-executive getting appointed as Minister of Defence and then rapidly returning as a CEO of a company which has lots of Government contracts tells me exactly that. Had this happened in Russia or China the Western media would have had no qualms in painting said companies as Government pawns.
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> returning as a CEO of a company which has lots of Government contracts

Spirit has negligible government contracts. They supply Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier.

> Had this happened in Russia or China the Western media would have had no qualms in painting said companies as Government pawns

No. If anything, it would have been pitched as quasi-oligarchic.