You are being way too Statist or your own version of Patriotic. We cannot live in a Vacuum, the Prime Minister has a country of Millions of Souls and you are worrying about incidentals.
As I just said to someone else, Show me one example of GWB commenting directly, by name, on the positions of a candidate for election in another country, a full year before a single vote is cast, and I'll concede the point.