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Fear of Russian influence was the lowest of the three, with only 28% considering Russia to be a threat to their democracy.
Asian countries were high among those that feared US influence, with Pakistan fearing Washington the most. Japanese respondents also consider the US to be a greater concern than China - while Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Israel, Australia, Ukraine, and Switzerland were also among the top half.
The survey was conducted by Latana in partnership with the Alliance of Democracies, which was founded in Denmark by former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen - a detail some on social media found interesting, given that the results inconveniently showed higher levels of fear regarding the US than Russia and China.
While people in European countries expressed lower levels of fear when it comes to US influence, they still expressed more fear about it than they did about influence from Moscow or Beijing.
Meanwhile, 64% of the world also considered economic inequality to be a threat to democracy, along with "limits on free speech" at 53%, "unfair or fraudulent elections" at 49%, and the power of Big Tech companies - most of which are based in the United States - at 48%.
Regarding the US' "role in world affairs," people in Russia, China, and Europe were most critical, while Latin America and Asia were more positive.
The report also showed that concerns over US influence on other democracies has increased since last year - up 20% in Germany alone and 16% in China.
The Alliance of Democracies boasts that it is funded by "several democratic governments," including Canada. It has also received money from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, the George W. Bush Institute, the Atlantic Council and the George Soros-funded National Democratic Institute.
Reader Comments
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Anton Chaitkin has been an activist since his childhood in the 1950s.
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In the early 1930s, his father, Jacob Chaitkin, a pro-Franklin Roosevelt lawyer, had blocked some of Wall Street’s financial arrangements with Hitler, and was legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress boycott against Germany.
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Anton grew up committed to justice, with a strong sense of the realities of power politics.
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About two years after the JFK assassination, Chaitkin heard from Lyndon LaRouche that financiers were shifting American strategy away from industrial progress, toward cheap labor, foreshadowing fascist policies and systemic collapse. An association was formed, to defeat those who had brutalized contemporary thought in science, economics, the arts, and philosophy.
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Chaitkin began a systematic inquiry into American history. He found that the mental map of our former leaders was far more profound and more pro-human than anything available in the post-JFK era.
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He has done sharply original work in American history, in hundreds of articles and in two books, Treason in America, from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman – a 600-page unveiling of the Eastern Establishment as the tory-British-racist-imperialist faction – and George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography.
The new powerful technologies and the necessary policies that accompany those technologies, must be kept firmly in the right hands, lest we are subjected to their reckless misuse.
The U.S, sadly, is no longer capable of guarding such a vast treasure.
On the bright side, China and Russia are!
Or at least, we hope so.
We think so.
We wish to believe.
Yes, sir.
signed,
We the People of the Poll