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This is standard stuff in all countries. If you need something political done and you have given (“invested”) a lot of money to something a politician cares about, it tends to grease the wheels. Happens in every government on earth.

It happens different amounts in different countries. And the difference matters. Government corruption is a major drag on the economy. And therefore less corrupt countries experience compounding growth that helps them become rich countries.

Corruption is a type of conspiring yes. Your point?

Conspiracy, or conspiracy theory?

Sick of seeing "educated" communities conflate the two.