The U.S. tried to fix Ukraine’s government. We exported our #corruption, instead. - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/25/us-tried-fix-ukraines-government-we-exported-our-corruption-instead
Trump [...] did not invent those trends. Hoover Institution scholar Larry Diamond argues that the world has been suffering from a “democratic recession ” for more than a decade, well before Trump came down the gilded escalator to launch his campaign. And big trends like that manifest in smaller dysfunctions first.
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it’s about the fact that money can buy officials and influence in Washington, just as it can in Kiev — and that the transnational nature of this corruption has undermined progress toward the optimistic dream of the 1990s. [...]
The cumulative effects of this corruption without borders are now plainly visible.