RE:another quite week....good.Old Mariner, there has never not been corruption, nothing new....different people on top, new variations on a theme, but same old same old. I now it will upset you to know that, no one person, no one group, controls.....always any number of countries, power groups ( corporations, religions, unions, institutions etc ), sometimes allied, sometimes competing.
As to spending your time trying to understand........not going to happen friend. Better by far to use your valuable time to do some good, for yourself, for others.......I find people who think they, finally, understand how things work, always don't, always, 100 %.
Am fascinated by folk who are sure they know how to end the Russian Ukrainian war, or the Israeli Palestinian stand off, or the Chinese Taiwanese tensions.........because they don't of course, and their usually people who aren't even running their own lives very well........easier to solve problems from a great distance, where you really know nothing, than to solve problems in your own backyard, where you know all the conflicting realities and feelings.
Be well.