So you're saying: 1)US corruption is as bad as Russia and the other Eastern European dictatorships and.... 2)...this excuses the appalling autocratic behavior

So you're saying: 1)US corruption is as bad as Russia and the other Eastern European dictatorships and.... 2)...this excuses the appalling autocratic behavior of Orban I would like to see fans of a US leader who has been caught in some scandal try to say "but the Easten European dictators do it" I suggest that these points are not only completely fallacious but actually the exact kind of distraction that oligarchs promulgate to keep their power: rather than discuss their own oppressive corruption, which the public might do something about, find something foreign to make people mad at. And apparently it's trivial to push these intentional distractions to the top of discussions and prevent even the first steps of removing the Kleptarch's mob.