Indulging Wickedness Becomes Wicked

National survival in a harsh world often involves having dealings with unsavoury regimes.
This is especially so since the West became dependent on oil for its economic and industrial survival.
In all too many cases, the major energy powers are unattractive despotisms, whose ruling families are grasping, corrupt – and used to floating above the law.
Up to a point, a country such as ours cannot avoid overlooking some of these faults if it wants to stay in business.
But there comes a moment when indulging wickedness itself becomes wicked – and where, rather than just looking conveniently the other way, a government turns into an active accessory to crime.