Because only agents are influenced. People who had a regular job at a foreign company, or whose parties receive donations from foreign donors, or people who are invited to meetings of NGOs, e.g. in Davos, are not influenced at all.

It’s much more complicated than having to worry about two countries.

And American ones are often lobbyists

Gerhard Schröder fucking works for Rosneft now. Most of them are somehow connected to Russia.