Mm. The problem I might have with a place like China is that it's hard to know whether someone really was corrupt, or whether they had some powerful political enemies. Falling foul of political enemies can terminate a career in our countries as well, except that the authorities generally can't do a lot more (unless the target really did break the law).
The other sort of thing I can imagine, for instance, is that there is a problem with the J20, but they cashiered the designer as a scapegoat. After all, if he's already in his 60s, he's pretty much at the end of his career and won't be designing the next one anyway.
I'm sure they are - and potentially heavy ones. But it's more the dissonance between a YouTube channel that's spent years hyping Russian failures, disasters and risk of collapse, and the fact that Russian war machine is still steadily chugging along and grinding Ukraine down.
There were reports in the serious media that Russia's economy was finally seriously creaking... and then Trump fucks up the sanctions squeeze by attacking Iran and sending the price of oil and gas sky high. Every conspiracy theorist out there who believes that Trump is a Russian asset could go wild on that. Or the billions that Trump has spent bombing Iran (which effectively includes much of the cost of Israel's bombing, given the USA subsidises Israel) which could instead have aided Ukraine.
