Soooo, it occurs to me foreigners are kind of obsessed with american politics.

Americans call their country a world power and then wonder why the rest of the world cares what it does. Why is that even a question?

Until Musk will relocate the USA to Mars their politics is going to affect everyone on the planet. Unfortunately.

cause our american politics affect the whole world not just us americans

Used to be the case that where America led much of the free world followed.

Involvement in aid programmes.
International rescue missions.
Free trade and travel agreements etc.

That meant a lot of American companies with manufacturing plants; superstores and satellite industries in other countries.

And then back in the mid-80's it became clear that both U.S. parties were selecting and electing the worst possible candidates for President.

Specific men with agenda set by a select group in their specific party.

That meant declaring needless wars in dangerous places and expecting 'allies' to support either physically; militarily or economically.

And not having learned the lesson from George Walker Bush's period in office, you then go and elect Trump.
Twice !

ALL the news coming out of America is how Trump is going to kill this; cancel that; everybody's a potential threat; every foreigner is an implied enemy....
All that from the man's own lips and he's not even in the Oval office yet.

So maybe now you get why the rest of the world is on edge at the moment

I live in the country that is your largest trading partner and your Repbulicans are already trying to dictate our foreign policy and defense budget from Washington.

So until you folks stop treating us like a colony than I will have something to say.

Because nobody wants to argue about British politics so whenever I wanna needlessly pointless political argument to let off some steam I've gotta go poke an American online with a stick, LOLZ😅

I'm joking I'm joking, I mean I don't get involved these days. My opinion will never change anyone else's, most debates go around in a loop and I can't vote on your system so it's something that's completely outside my control or need to be involved in.
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The size of the US economy and its centrality to world affairs means that we cannot ignore what is going on there.

Stop.Musk from spreading misinformation about UK politics through X and perhaps some of us will get less heated about the USA 🙂

Because foreigners can't talk about anything to do with non-American politics without you lot making it about America... so it's American politics or no politics.