I would be amazed if a large number of US “representatives” at the higher levels aren’t being blackmailed or bought off by someone, and it’s probably based on which one works, then they use the other. Maybe some of those reps already have an amount of money that makes them less prone to being bought off, so blackmail needs to be involved, or the blackmail isn’t needed if money works, but after a certain point, I don’t think there are many upper-level people in any major government who aren’t being influenced by other countries or oligarchs in one way or another, and to an extent, it doesn’t seem to matter. The US does it, Britain does it, surely Russia does it, China does it, and it’s done to them.

It reminds me of MK-ULTRA because the program was started because of the assumption that other countries were also going to try mind-control programs. After years of the US trying to develop mind control of its own, they realized that other countries had a much easier system where they just bought people off, and that had a much better rate of success because people just wanted to be comfortable. After MK-ULTRA was scrapped, buying off assets was the next best (and real) thing to a more standardized extent.