Writing says a lot about someones world view.
Take the simple comic book. They have this event with the Transformers being forced to tiptoe around Earth authority.
And at the same time, the Visionaries pop up on Cybertron as unwanted refugee's, and they're forced to tiptoe around the newcomers, who encrouch on their authority.
Read between the lines, and the 30 foot tall robots have to behave like liberals expect their own government to: Deferring to other nations abroad, and to invaders here at home. At no point is it acceptable, in a liberals eyes, for their own to assert any kind of authority.
E.g., to a liberal, dipomacy means never throwing a punch, and always being willing to take one, with a smile.
Which is a pretty racist view, really.. It presumes the US is powerful enough, where the other nations aren't a threat. They are as children, who we should indulge.
And it helps draw in those minority votes, so there's that.