The yanks are generally as ignorant about what it is like under the greater US empire, to be in one of its vassals, as the euros and such are of internal US politics. That's not an excuse for the greater empire' ignorance, but it is again rich for yanks to demand they not be ignorant on these matters from within the US while those within the US are as ignorant of the wider empire.

And if the US is in charge, some of the responsibility for the ignorance of the people in its wider empire is theirs to bear. Not immediately, not the moment a new region is brought in, these things take time. But it's been an awful long time now, so they do now have some responsibility for it.