The difference is scale and narrative: where traditional syndicates hide from the law, the state writes the law, using legality itself as the shield that turns exploitation, war, and impunity into normal governance.

Like any syndicate, it enforces rules downward, rewards loyalty upward, and treats human lives as expendable costs of doing business.

Violence is outsourced and rebranded as foreign policy, extraction is legalized as economic growth, and corruption is sanitized through lobbying, courts, and patriotic language.