The real exorbitant privilege may be insisting that other countries have a very precise understanding and consideration for your domestic political constraints while you don’t have to GAF about theirs.

See also how Ukrainian military operations and EU support were expected to fit around the US electoral calendar

Wasn't this written by a Brit, though? So neither the US nor the EU are his countries

In fact, anything that’s good for your country is, by definition, good for those other countries because it gives them a stronger ally.

All of world politics depending on diner goers in the mid west is a real victory of the lumpy proletariat