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1) Indirectly it's fully possible, by affecting the ones who do live there. There needs to be some sort of large-scale operation to actually make a significant difference though.
2) If USA had kept to itself, then yes it would have been none of our concern. That is very much not the case, however.
3) Some of us here have actually been to the states, don't waste time on TV and are very well aware of that just because it's in the mass media doesn't make it automatically true.