I want you to imagine how nauseating the Internet would've been to you if everywhere you went you encountered evangelical Christians preaching. "God and ... are more intertwined than ever, as the ... case demonstrates," blah blah blah.

or, alternatively, imagine if Indians (18% of the world's population) were as passionate about politics as Americans (4%) are, and you had to endure constant shit slinging between rabid supporters and opponents of all the innumerable political factions of the world's largest democracy.

that's how the rest of us feels about the current thing being shoved in our faces by "everything is political" activists everywhere we go.

Neither of those metaphors line up, really. America's outsized impact on the global economy, security and technology landscape is not proportional to it's population. The relationship between political endeavors and technology are purely secular and material, we wouldn't have things like EUVL or SAR without DARPA paving the way for political objectives.

Much like religion or the Indian Prime Minister, you don't have to discuss the American hegemony if you don't want to. But it does exist, and the burden of proof falls on you to explain how these things aren't important topics.