Your chain of comments sounds naive and presumptuous to me. What does it exactly mean for the US and UK to "dominate" in research, and in which areas? How are only their research "meaningful" while the others aren't? How exactly do the academics "have the power" and what are the concrete instances where they are successful in doing so especially in non-CS fields? Feels like you're more talking out of vastly simplistic assumptions and imaginations than actual facts.