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Originally Posted by ogon_bat
That is so false it is not even funny. Since the USA is a superpower domestic policy do affects at the international level. The war on drugs is a clear example, affects the lives of millions of peoples outside the USA. There is also the crop subsides farmers receive, they also do affect economies all the world over. Immigration policy also affects lots of economies since the USA has a huge appetite for a low wage workforce which sends some of their income back home. The USA exerts force to make their laws the same laws in other nations.
In the end it is wishful thinking to say our interest is academic, we are interested since it does affect us and sometimes who becomes potus affects us more than the effect it has on some US citizens.
But this is not an anti-usa ramble, as china raises as an economic power I will probably start saying the same about them.
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Fine, maybe
Mexico has a more than academic interest in the difference between Romney and Obama.
Here, we don't produce a lot of drugs, we don't see the US as the promised land, and we've got our own farm subsidies.