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UAE Team Emirates has a massive budget and has recruited some of the best riders in the world to support the best rider in the world, Pogacar. So yeah, of course they're are stronger than most other teams. INEOS has declined massively over the last decade (maybe you should be questioning what they've been doing) and until very recently AG2R had nowhere near the budget of the big teams. At every point throughout history there have been big teams and small teams, that's how the sport works. Comparing the biggest team to a couple of middling ones and saying "look how much better they are, they must be cheaters!" is a nonsensical argument.
In any case, the original point you seemed to be making was that Vingegaard, the second best GC rider in the world, is clean but the guy he has beaten in multiple stages and stage races, Pogacar, is a doper. Like I said, I don't understand how you can come to that conclusion. It just sounds like emotional reasoning because Pogacar's dominance reminds you of Armstrong. You've been following the sport long enough to remember that Armstrong was far from the only doper of his generation, and his team was far from the only one circumventing the rules.