When a Putin defector falls out of a window nobody questions why - they understand that it’s connected. Why? It has happened enough times that the likelihood of coincidental tragedy and aggression toward the existing economic power structure (irrespective of what it is) are too high to be non-causally influenced.

There’s also this false sense of “that kind of stuff only happens in corrupt/backward/non-advanced/… cultures, not our culture of justice and virtue” which is just demonstrably and statistically wrong

US funded and headquartered corporations don’t dominate the world cause they are that great and make the best product at the best price. It’s cause they are the most ruthless