Gallup issued on February 28
th its
"2019 Rating World Leaders" report, subtitled "The US vs. Germany, China and Russia," and said that "The world still frowned on US leadership more than the leadership of any other country asked about in 2018." All four of the countries' leaderships received approval-ratings from people worldwide in only the 30-39% range, and this low score for the US leadership (which was approved by merely 31% of people sampled worldwide during 2018) represented an enormous decline for the United States, which during the Obama years had received scores ranging from 41% to 49% approval.
However, a Gallup report which had been issued only three days earlier, on February 25th, indicated that the American people are blissfully ignorant of any of this reality, and instead believe that the global approval-rating of the United States itself is high and is rising, not, as it actually is, low and declining.In fact, on January 18
th of just a year back, 2018, Gallup had headlined
"World's Approval of US Leadership Drops to New Low", and this plunge in the global rating of America's leadership could reasonably cause a person to expect a decline in the American public's view of America's national image in foreign countries, but it's not showing up, at all. The exact contrary is being displayed in the recent data. On February 25
th of 2019, Gallup bannered,
"Americans' Perceptions of US World Image Best Since 2003", and reported that "58% say US rates very or somewhat favorably in world's eyes." This disparity between reality and the public's view of reality, is clear in the data despite all of these polls'
having altogether ignored almost all of the Islamic-majority nations, where there has long been a very negative view prevailing both of the United States and of US leadership. (The US regime prefers its pollsters to sample mainly favorable countries regarding its public image around the world, and so that is what is done.)
Comment: Numerous protesters have been maimed by police flash bombs, some have had a hand blown off, at least 18 have lost an eye - which is why some of these weapons are banned in most EU countries - journalists have been shot in the face; medics and journalists are constantly harassed and deliberately prevented from doing their job; protestors, young and old, male and female, are frequently beaten, pepper sprayed, tear gassed and unlawfully detained by gangs of police who will unleash whatever violence is necessary to scare them off protesting. And while some of the police have previously claimed to be victims of Macron's neo-liberal destruction of the country, a large portion of them don't seem to be too reluctant in acting with incredible violence on his behalf:
- Forgotten France rises up
- What do the protesters in France want? Check out the 'official' Yellow Vest manifesto
- Niall Bradley to PressTV: 'Yellow Vests Movement a Result of Sclerotic, Totalitarian Politics in Western Europe'
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