You see it as “jingoistic” to prefer more local corruption that sucks, but largely zero sum among the country you live in, to foreign corruption that is zero su

You see it as “jingoistic” to prefer more local corruption that sucks, but largely zero sum among the country you live in, to foreign corruption that is zero sum with adversaries? I’ll be charitable and assume your point is “any corruption is so unbelievably awful that we might as well have the worst possible form of it if we have any at all.”