EU Can write whatever it wants down on a piece of paper, but that dont mean its anything more than a piece of paper to me... they have no authority here, I don't recognize their authority and there is absolutely nothing that they can do about it.. So it dont really matter if they say its applicable to me, because its not.
Argue semantics til your blue in the face, the end result is nobody doing business with or within the EU has any obligation whatsoever to even concern themselves with the GDPR.. and that's never going to change, regardless what everyone's opinions are on the matter.
-R