Focusing on corruption is just bluntly stupid on many fronts. It’s a prestige from someone comes from a constitutional republic but lacks understanding of local

Focusing on corruption is just bluntly stupid on many fronts. It’s a prestige from someone comes from a constitutional republic but lacks understanding of local context. It is extremely ignorant to claim corruptions shaped history when corruptions were always the symptom not the cause. This superficial worldview caused horrible errors in American foreign policy decisions. The US gave up Chinese government during China’s civil war, so let the communists took over. Did the same thing in Vietnam. Similarly in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places, given up the government and let terrorists took the country. All because the corruptions in their governments. The fact is that those governments were deemed to be corrupted no matter who is in charge. You cannot just command them out of corruptions. So instead of living with the imperfect reality of the historical and cultural context, we choose to let the worst to take over so that we can close eyes and make nice postures.