I wonder if it's a bit of a race between how much you can spend versus how much you loose to corruption, like filling a barrel with holes in it by adding water

I wonder if it's a bit of a race between how much you can spend versus how much you loose to corruption, like filling a barrel with holes in it by adding water faster. Supposedly the US's classified intelligence program budget is 81.1 billion, larger than 9 of the next top ten foreign nation's total military expenditures. https://sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_milex_2018_0.pdf https://sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_milex_...