> Because it's not a "country" asking for this. It's politicians. Politicians are, more or less, democratically elected in the US. A country is just a huge net

> Because it's not a "country" asking for this. It's politicians. Politicians are, more or less, democratically elected in the US. A country is just a huge net of social relations, and those social relations express power in electing a representative. A country isn't going to express any preference because it's collectively imagined, and the closest we're currently capable of expressing the preferences of those who are apart of this imagination is through democracy. These politicians don't just pop out of thin air.