And, if they aren't recognizing you for your efforts, hopefully you're learning the process enough to move on to another company? Sometimes just being able to "speak the language" of that position in an interview is enough to get on the door, even if you're light on actual experience. Many people are doing the jobs of their managers already!
It really does look like it. Big Oligarchy (Putin among them) saw our supposed "shining city on a hill" and paid their boy to set that city on fire, sabotage its foundations, and scare away the populace.
Assets are much cheaper, and less uppity, in times of chaos.
Rape by law enforcement is not at all a new problem. Now with even less oversight, encouragement to be "aggressive", a blitzkrieg method of deploying & hiring, and people being deported & disappeared... Civil rights are on the back-burner