>>63941648
Of course they can get an audience, and its likely that they can get quite a bit of bill influence. Especially if they can dangle the promise of jobs and investment in that congressional district.
But you need to understand the fundamentally different character of corruption in the US MIC vs the Chinese and Russian MIC. In America, the corruption will lead to a completed contract, where the product delivered does what it should do, but at a higher price than it needs to be, built in an economically sub-optimal way or place, and possibly over-ordered (why else do we have all those CBGs?). In the asiatic way, virtually all the money goes to graft, which means the body armor either doesn't exist IRL or is made of cotton, the MREs are all rotten in the warehouse, and there is not nearly as much tank fuel as there should be.
This difference is due to the fact that for all its faults, Americans have an implicit understanding that its weapons will likely be deployed and need to work, or else the schemes will get investigated and heads will roll. Asiatics don't (or at least in russia, they didn't) think this way, and so the corruption drifts into outright theft instead of survivable inefficiency. Thanks for reading, I hope you now understand why you can't have nice things.
