In Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting and dying in America’s longest conflict, the re-election of President Barack Obama was met with a war-weary shrug on Wednesday as foreign forces prepare to withdraw.
One of the few things that Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney agreed on during their bitter campaign was that US combat troops would pull out by the end of 2014, whatever the state of the conflict against Taliban insurgents.
But in general Afghanistan, where the United States has lost more than 2,000 soldiers in a decade of fighting and still has 68,000 troops, was barely mentioned during the election campaign.
There was no immediate reaction from the Afghan government as President Hamid Karzai was travelling, heading for a meeting in Indonesia, and officials said they had no comment on the election result.
But Karzai has said in the past that the outcome would have little impact on Afghanistan as the US strategy towards the country was already set.
And on the streets, indifference ruled.