But the implications go beyond elections.

The accusation is that this scheme represents a profound betrayal of the public trust, leveraging foreign populations to influence domestic elections while funneling money upward and insulating elites from accountability. Ordinary citizens pay the price through lost representation, economic pressure, and a system rigged against them.

This is not framed as routine corruption.
It is framed as a national security crisis.

And if proven, the consequences would not be political, they would be legal, historic, and irreversible.