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I assume a lot of that is blackmail or pressure from people being blackmailed.
But that's just as wild, so many people in so many governments have either been bought for a pittance or blackmailed and none of them have retaliated or given the blackmailers the finger and exposed them anyway. I would be furious if I was a member of a g20 government and some genocidal dickhead from Israel had the gall to try and first buy my vote and second blackmail me into submission. I'd make it my life's mission to see them and their entire nefarious network exposed and rendered useless.
I’ve read blackmail allegations in different news stories for a long time, some in mainstream newspapers. Additionally federal USA politicians are usually not very nice people.
But even if one were to discount all that, the whole thing is, as you said, very weird