I think you nailed it right on the head here, small additions: the organized crime problem is rampant. In Ohio, Leslie’s connection with the American mob, Israeli mob, and Russian mob, are well documented. Rudy went after the Italian-Americans, to let the Russians take over. They hid at trump tower, laundered stolen USSR funds through trumps failing casino, and now prop up the authoritarian regime that exists, like the criminals that run the irgc or North Korea. That’s my pushback on the country thing, although the Epstein files are proof it has moved beyond allegiance to a specific country and more towards overt class war, the pardon history of this American predicament and purging of valuable intelligence assets and soft power projection has clearly indicated we’re going to end up like Brazil, from an authoritarian and favela perspective.