I've been noticing this more and more, there's an insistence that pointed economic or environmental criticisms of some consumption habit, usually almost exclusively partaken by the upper middle class and wealthier people, must actually secretly be a purely cultural critique. I'm sure these guys work for Exxon or some shit, lmao.
Yeah, flags of convenience is the term/insult from memory, Panama and Liberia are probably the most well known, but I think some landlocked countries are getting in on the easy money too.