Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev relishes humiliating Washington.
He berates American diplomats on state television while he buys others with lucrative post-retirement gigs. Even more than Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and China, he buys influence in Washington, and has his oil partner BP do likewise in London.
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