I was trying so hard to rationalize how you were able to fuck up this bad for so long until I realized yup that's a gambling addiction.

The problem with existential crisis like what Ukraine is facing is it seems to dramatically decrease corruption. If not using these weapons as they were intended and instead selling them to someone else will possibly lead to your death and destruction of your culture you're much less likely to sell them. Sure some absolute scumbags might not give a shit and sell it for short term gain but it's much less likely making that propaganda laughable.

I guess we can just blame the Chinese for being dumbasses and getting addicted to heroine a bit ago, mr Asian first?

There will be more hoops to jump through making it less likely to happen.