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2014/01/02 20:11:33
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
"The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece.
A global survey conducted by the Worldwide Independent Network and Gallup at the end of 2013 revealed strong animosity towards the US’s role as the world’s policeman. Citizens across over 60 nations were asked: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”
The US topped the list, with 24 percent of people believing America to be the biggest danger to peace. Pakistan came second, with 8 percent of the vote and was closely followed by China with 6 percent. Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and North Korea came in joint fourth place with 5 percent of the vote.
The threat from the US was rated most highly in the Middle East and North Africa, those areas most recently affected by American military intervention. Moreover, the survey showed that even Americans regard their country as a potential threat with 13 percent of them voting the US could disrupt global status quo.
Latin America expressed mixed feelings towards its northerly neighbor, with Peru, Brazil and Argentina all flagging the US as the most dangerous country.
After its numerous threats of a strike on Iran, many countries voted Israel was the biggest threat to prosperity. Morocco, Lebanon and Iraq all chose Israel as the number one danger to world peace.
In the survey participants were also asked: “If there were no barriers to living in any country of the world, which country would you like to live in?” Despite being the perceived largest threat to world peace, the US still topped the tables by a narrow margin of 9 percent.
In general 2013 saw a drop in approval ratings for the Obama Administration. A poll conducted by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research revealed that 50 percent of those asked thought that the political system in the US needed a “complete overhaul.”
In addition, 70 percent of Americans believe the government lacks the ability to make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”
The survey comes two months after the first government shutdown in 17 years in the US which cost the country an estimated $10 billion.
The American government’s credibility was dealt a blow earlier this year when President Obama made a call to strike Syria following a suspected chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government on civilians. The American public and the international community both opposed the action."
it has some interesting things to say generally as well
"Optimism is back in the world- WIN/Gallup International’s annual global End of Year survey shows a brighter outlook for 2014
Zurich, Switzerland - 30th December 2013 - WIN/Gallup International, the leading global association in market research and polling, has today published, in collaboration with The BBC's Today programme, the results of its annual End of Year Survey which explores the outlook, expectations, hopes and fears of people from 65 countries around the world.
TLDR PEOPLE read below
Headlines
Despite a year of economic difficulty, almost 50% of people surveyed are more positive about 2014 than they were for 2013;
US, Canada and Australia are the countries where most people would like to live if they could;
US is considered to be the greatest threat to peace in the world, followed by Pakistan and China;
Over a third of those surveyed believe the world would be a better place if there were more female politicians;
Now in its 37th year WIN/Gallup International End of Year Survey finds that since 1989 people in general have a more positive outlook on economic prosperity for the coming year.
Jean-Marc Leger, President of WIN/Gallup International Association, said: “Despite an unstable economic situation, our happiness index is extremely high all over the world except in Europe. Moreover people think that 2014 will be better than 2013. Optimism is back in the world.”
all you people who discout everything that comes from RT, because its rusky biased instead of US biased like fox/cnbc/msnbc ect... this is not the only paper reporting on the stufy, plenty of others have reported on this study, and show the same results.
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2014/01/02 20:21:42
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
I question the validity of these results, where the top "four" (actually seven countries) only adds up to 58% of the total vote... Considering 'fourth place' is 5%, that means the remaining 42% of the vote was split among countries that didn't receive anything more than about 4%... so... who did those people think were the biggest threat to world peace? Canada? Switzerland? Sweden? Mongolia? Tibet?
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2014/01/02 20:25:23
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
As far as surveys go, these guys actually do know how to do it.
This is the "WIN/Gallup International, the leading global association in market research and polling" we are talking about here... your "guy on the internet handwaivium" doesnt really discredit this kind of institution
Exactly! I love how the places not to mess with are the best places to live!
I almost read it as "they hate us cause they jelly"
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chaos0xomega wrote: I question the validity of these results, where the top "four" (actually seven countries) only adds up to 58% of the total vote... Considering 'fourth place' is 5%, that means the remaining 42% of the vote was split among countries that didn't receive anything more than about 4%... so... who did those people think were the biggest threat to world peace? Canada? Switzerland? Sweden? Mongolia? Tibet?
I did post the site where you can fact check for yourself as to what the other results were... i dont know why you expect a survey to list all the other, minority answers, because its just going to be a lot of sub 5% votes for varions nations like israel/iran/sudan/ect... they dont need to list every answer on their front page to be valid, and you are free to actually look at those #'s... they are also right there for your pursuing.
Which, if you check page 7, puts the US in fourth place with 13% of the vote, behind North Korea, Afghanistan, and Iran?
Either I don't know how to read charts, or something isn't quite right with the news article.
you are reading the USA's result, the RT article/ gallup world summery is discussing the worlds result for that same question.
IE http://www.wingia.com/en/services/about_the_end_of_year_survey/country_results/7/37/ lists all the countries results and all the questions, you need to add em all up to get the world answer, not just the USA's
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2014/01/02 20:46:17
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
Cool but remember this is published by RT = Russia Today and that the editor in chief is the "Vice-President of Russia’s National Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters (NAT)". It would need a little more checking into of how the survey was conducted, sample selection, etc.
Better to be a threat to world peace by trying to do something good than to voice our "displeasure" with various groups and do nothing.
All I can think of is a parallelism:
It is the threat of actions of the father for placing kids in the corner or physically directing them to the activities they should have done or conducted to their room for hitting their brother or various toys removed and bad language and bullying are carried out and reprimanded that REALLY disturbs and threatens the peace in the house but without it there WOULD BE NO PEACE AT ALL.
This was a paid for parental announcement...
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2014/01/02 21:17:21
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
What a joke. France has undertaken and threatened more military action around the world in 2013 then we did. This poll was nothing but an outlet for America hate.
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2014/01/02 21:43:26
Subject: Re:US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
djones520 wrote: What a joke. France has undertaken and threatened more military action around the world in 2013 then we did. This poll was nothing but an outlet for America hate.
Good....goood...give in to your hatred and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
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2014/01/02 21:51:35
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
to the people complaining its off a RT site... its NOT... this is a GALLUP world wide poll,
RT is just a PAPER reporting on the poll, it is not the poll itself, nor a sponser for it...
gallup isnt some tinfoil hat club organization, nor is it a hate club, its perfectly believable that there is this level of anti Americanism in the world... weather it is deserved or not (not IMO)
keep in mind, that many americans have to wear canadian flags for this reason, and even 10 years ago, the first thing I always had to explain while travelling was "I am canadian, not american" to people.... the poll fits what I have known from travelling for years, namely the world has a very skewed perception of america/americains due to the primary export being hollywood and bombs
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2014/01/02 21:55:34
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
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2014/01/02 21:58:56
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
We have one of the largest military complexes in the world.
I'd be a bit worried if we WEREN'T considered a major threat to world peace.
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2014/01/02 21:59:21
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
chaos0xomega wrote: Has anyone gone through the trouble of adding up all the numbers to determine if the 28% is in fact accurate?
RT actually states it is 24%, not 28%, which is correct +/ - 1%,
every other paper quoting the gallup poll also states 24% that I can find,
my own math shows similar results when added up,
here is another source, I understand that people see "RT" as a biased tabloid, but is is just as "credible" as CNN, fox, msnbc, ect ect... they are all the same, just different bias.
I for one do not question the accuracy of this poll at all. I can see why people would have that opinion of us.
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2014/01/02 23:34:05
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
Yep, the country cough...North Korea...cough, threatening to launch nuclear war is totaly in line with a peaceful, loving place anyone would love to have on their border.
2014/01/03 00:00:11
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
Relapse wrote: Yep, the country cough...North Korea...cough, threatening to launch nuclear war is totaly in line with a peaceful, loving place anyone would love to have on their border.
If I am surprised by the poll its that Pakistan is in the number 2 spot and Afghanistan in #4? I would have thought Iran, Israel, North Korea would all warrant a higher place on the list than those 2.
keep in mind, those are the countries who scare the US...
this survey is world wide, so it makes perfect sense that the US centric fears of the "axis of evil" type countries is a local US type thing...
naturally, the results from the USA are HUGLY diffferent from those in other countries, in the USA< you bet NK and the "axis" are much higher then the USA or israel, but most people are not americans.
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2014/01/03 00:05:37
Subject: US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
I was actually thinking that but with Indians voting Pakistan. I just wouldn't think that anyone else in the world is really that concerned about Pakistan that they'd rank so highly.
The USA opinion is that 20% think iran is worst, followed by afghanistan at 16%, then north korea at 13%, then surprisingly the USA at 13%, then Iraq at 6%, syria and china at 5%.. canada actually makes the americans list at 1%! pakistan is also only at 1%
the INdia opinion is the one that thinks pakistan is the worst threat, at 25%, followed by the states at 19%, followed by india itself at 12%... again, canada ties at 1% same as north korea, syria, iran...
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