Nah, it’s not a racial thing. There are countries in the same region with a similar racial makeup that are nowhere near as corrupt (though Ukraine is). It’s a cultural thing, and it all comes down from Putin. Just like Trump is making America more corrupt, but he hasn’t had 20 years to do it like Putin has.
And you guys are really super sensitive about this. It’s not like I think only Russia is bad (Trump is very bad), I’m just being honest about how Russia is incredibly corrupt because I’ve seen it with my own eyes and you guys are just flipping the f@#$ from this simple, true statement (backed up by countless corruption indexes) with the epitome of ‘thou doth protest too much, methinks’.
If you’re so upset about people calling you cheaters, then stop cheating so much. Maybe don’t have a national sports program that are olympic gold medalists in cheating. You can rant and rave about ‘America is bad too’, but that’s not convincing at all - it’s a shitty excuse and I’ll just nod and say yes, America is pretty bad too. Not as bad on any corruption index, but not good, and getting worse under Trump. But that still leaves Russia as incredibly corrupt with a deep culture of cheating from the top down.
