Probably not, but Westerners have an overinflated sense of their own importance and assume the entire world is always paying attention to what their media and politicians do and say. I’ve heard a bunch of US commentators who are convinced for instance that Putin and Xi sat and watched the entire US presidential debate. To someone outside of their bubble that sounds absurd, but these people are so entirely self-absorbed that they are convinced they are the center of the universe and they project their own obsessions onto everyone else.
Probably not, but Westerners have an overinflated sense of their own importance and assume the entire world is always paying attention to what their media and politicians do and say. I’ve heard a bunch of US commentators who are convinced for instance that Putin and Xi sat and watched the entire US presidential debate. To someone outside of their bubble that sounds absurd, but these people are so entirely self-absorbed that they are convinced they are the center of the universe and they project their own obsessions onto everyone else.