I suspect your insights are correct. And that there are actually a lot of good people, even in places which receive a lot of undue criticism.
My personal… i don’t know.. soap box? Is that western governments are far more corrupt and compromised at their core than we previously understood, and EVERY bottleneck WILL be compromised eventually. No matter how good the people in that bottleneck are. 
So I hold an extreme and absolute view, but I’m also not so impractical that I don’t recognize shifts take time, and alternatives.