If I steal your tires and sell them to a pawn shop is the primary problem me, or is the pawn shop? I know it's fashionable to bellyache about the west but if th

If I steal your tires and sell them to a pawn shop is the primary problem me, or is the pawn shop? I know it's fashionable to bellyache about the west but if the former USSR had a healthy, functioning government it wouldn't have these problems. The government was weak, it didn't have the support it needed, and it failed.