That’s one of the issues Kleptopeia addresses. Corrupt politicians use innuendo and hatred to corrupt politicians to attack their opponents in the West. As th

That’s one of the issues Kleptopeia addresses. Corrupt politicians use innuendo and hatred to corrupt politicians to attack their opponents in the West. As their opponents are often corrupt themselves, you can’t just look at the narrative. After all the narrative is: “corrupt politicians are doing these horrible things; stop them!” This sort of reporting is very hard and very fact dependent. It contains horror stories of the Khazakh leader using Western courts to persecute his opponents. That’s possible because (a) the opponents aren’t saints, and (b) money is necessary to buy justice. The dictators use money to hire western lawyers, western lawyers to win court cases, won court cases to establish facts, facts to destroy opponents legal status, fewer opponents to get more power, and power to get more money. Power -> money -> lawyers/consultants (Tony Blair) -> truth -> power.