I was going to say it was just cynicism, which I do feel is deadening, but then I thought a bit more about it. Niya is from some unnamed Caribbean nation. Historically, the US has treated those islands something like a pigeon treats a statue. His view might make quite a bit of sense from that perspective.

In the US, we see a certain amount of difference. From Europe, there's probably quite a different view of the US. They probably see us as something like a volcano: Interesting, scenic, but with the potential to almost randomly destroy everything. The view from the Caribbean...is probably not that. The different presidents, whose differences are so important to us, are just different pigeons to them: The end result is the same.