A new Reuters/IPSOS poll shows a growing number of Americans seeing US-Russia relations as “back to the old days of the Cold War,” with far more Americans seeing the Russian Federation as a bigger threat after the 2016 election campaign.
It should come as no surprise, of course, as the Clinton campaign spent the better part of the election claiming Russia was “hacking the vote,” and hysteria around US-Russia hostilities seemed to grow precipitously every day through the election, and continued as a headline story well after the vote itself.
The polls show exactly what the campaign did to the American psyche, however, with a nearly 10% increase in the number of Americans identifying Russia as a “threat to the United States” between early 2015 and today. It’s worth noting that the early 2015 figures were themselves already heightened by hype surrounding the East Ukraine civil war, and claims by US officials that a Russian invasion of Eastern Europe was imminent.
Distrust of Russians survived beyond the Cold War for many Americans, but in general US-Russia hostility hadn’t penetrated into the panic mode levels of current polling data since the fall of the Soviet Union. The growing US military buildups in Eastern Europe and conflicting strategies of the US and Russia in Syria led to a growing amount of vilification of the Putin government.
The election took everything up another notch or two, with the Clinton campaign blaming Russia for hacking of Democratic Party servers, accusing Presidnet-elect Donald Trump of being a “Russian puppet,” and blaming Russia for their loss in the election itself.
It is ironic, then, that a week ahead of Trump taking office, and with an agreement reportedly already in place to normalize US-Russian ties, we are simultaneously facing the worst US fear of Russia in a generation on the eve of what is likely to be considerably better Russo-American relations.
Yep, keep the propaganda going strong and keep any and all Truth — Top Secret. This election has opened a lot of eyes but most Americans are still ” Asleep at the wheel”.
The propaganda designed and promoted by the Deep State and the CIA is working much like it did during the Cold War. The U.S. needs a country that threatens our “freedoms” to keep the MIC growing and increase the 1%’s wealth. A ragtag group of terrorists (that the U.S. created) is not enough of a threat to justify more nuclear weapons, more aircraft carriers and maintaining our imperial bases worldwide.
Yes . . . and all at the expense of a brain-dead public who seemingly will NEVER understand the conflict of interest that the mainstream media represents! Americans might as well still believe in Santa Claus! Russia is a good litmus test for Americans to show just who is tuned in to REALITY(mainly internet non-sanitized news) and who STILL falls for easily disproved lies. It is like a nation of children who just want to believe what they have been brainwashed to believe all these years!
We’re number one!!!! Propaganda wise.
Propaganda and lies will always suck in the gullible. 12 years of government monopoly school/day prison have done exactly what they were intended to do. Independent thought is virtually absent in most of America now. Thank goodness for sites like antiwar.com.
I wanted to up vote you but they will not let me . I agree it would be fun to read the weekly reader and see what they are saying about the UN , gay marriage , or Russia attacking Ukraine or Syria . I have heard of some countries forcing their government to stop informing their children of how the world should be . The global warming was refused in some European schools because it had not been proven correct .
Trouble is eric, supporting Trump and waiting for him to follow through with even some of his campaign promises, is doing nothing but treading water on this site. All the stories are so far confident that Trump is the great white hope American have been waiting for.
And so months of building hopes on Trump, when they are dashed upon the rocks, will put antiwar.com back years and could even result in the end of Raimondo! Unless he finds a way to counterspin all the crap he’s spewed over the last year on supporting Trump as the best choice.
luv from Canada.
I disdain anyone who closes their minds to someone trying to inform them of PROVEN INFORMATION because they haven’t even taken a moment to try and confirm information that they accept unquestioningly coming from the MSM! Shame on these people! If I told them their houses were burning down or being broken in to I’m SURE they would listen. But talk about thieves in “their” government and wrong-doing and they just close up in a knee jerk reaction- they are “patriotic” and will ALWAYS back the USA, right or wrong! What morons!!!
It is the fault of MSM, and through their incessant lying and spinning — they have achieved the worst possible state. People do not trust media, its chummines with power elite and the disdain they continue to show for the popular expression of anger that drove the election. And at the same time, they did create the hysteria with the continuous drum beat on the danger from Russia. Those that stopped believing in the media, have actually increased their interest in Russia and view both Russia and its president favorably for escaping the globalist noose. It is seen in conservative internet media, that has a different world view. Doubt anybody ask them for oppinion.
And additional proof of the distrust of institutions — I have instintivelly doubted the poll!
Hmmm. Where does it come from? Could it be election polling?
Clinton is to blame for not winning the election and thereby driving up the % of Americans who now hate Russia. It can’t be Trump’s fault that only 14%-16% of Americans trust Russia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-poll-idUSKBN14X2IF
It’s all ginned up paranoia or feigned paranoia. If you can scare people you can control them and rule them.
No Mary, you should be afraid. At least for your children or/and your grandchildren. For one solid example go to huffpost and read about how Iran has said that they would make no changes to the nuclear deal. Then remember that Trump said he will tear it up.
Iran and Syria are not there for the taking by the US. But the US doesn’t understand those terms. Russia does! And fwiw, China does too.
Russia is maybe more than 10% more dangerous to us now than they were in 2015 .With all the dirty double dealing tricks we have pulled against Russia they definitely are more dangerous to us . We drove both China and Russia together in 1999 . Where we Humiliated both of them when we destroyed Yugoslavia .Yugoslavia was a peaceful country that in all history never attacked another country .They have both built a lot of new weapons with the idea of confronting the USA in mind .I believe China and Russia are about ready to show us how well their new weapons work if they can find a good place where they have the advantage and especially the advantage of world opinion like Yugoslavia or even the middle east . Where our meddling isn’t very popular any more .
Quite a story you are telling us to back up your estimate of 10% eric.
In essence you are saying that the nuclear MAD clock has only been advanced 10% of the remaining time we are judged to have. Really dumb eric, and that wouldn’t be just me saying that.
When you have the entire deep state and their minions (Dems/Repubs) in a full court press of propaganda and our defacto state media are active enablers of state propaganda, then of course the population would believe this non-sense. History repeats itself again. 75% of the same idiots believed in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was behind the 911 attacks.
Another poll we can believe in.
It is BECAUSE of the potential for conflict with Russia, that Trump is the SANEST choice. His reflex is constructive cooperation,as opposed to the alternative choice, who’s reflex is dangerous by being unnecessarily and it seems gleefully confrontational. She seems to be attracted to proving, that she is stronger and tougher than men in general and Putin in particular. She and her family would be in underground bunkers if her bluster turned exitential….. what about us and our families…?????
Americans should be more afraid of Russia now that you have Trump. Trump has promised to tear up the Iran agreement and Iran has just said that it will not make any changes to the agreement.
So if Trump was just pretending in order to get elected then maybe Americans shouldn’t be more afraid? Which is it?
And fwiw, Hillary wasn’t going to interfere with the Iran deal. Even though not saying she would probably cost her some votes.
luv from Canada.
How can you prophecy what he or she is or will do, dog? I know it’s cold but, they doesn’t give you crystal balls does it? Do you read boiled maple leaves or pitch moose bones? You sure deem to know Don’s or Hillary’s thoughts and actions before they Factually unfold, oh wondermous hoser the poser!
It’s good that you post here because you are proof that your kind are not completely extinct. And in fact, you probably represent the majority in the southern states.
luv from Canada.
It’s good you live in Canada because your arrogance creates a drought of wisdom. You’re the typical psuedo-intellectual and feudal lord whose ass was handed to them in 1776. Oh, that’s right you still lick England’s boot. Why, cowards. Gutless alligator mouths with chicken butts. My forefathers with less than 3% of their fellow country men and women shoved the most powerful empire at the time back across the pond with a one finger salute. My ancestors with the help and leadership of a Supreme being handed the Egyptian Empire it’s ass and walked through the valley of the shadow of death, fearing no evil because the Lord provided their rod and staff. He also for the time period provided the moral, legal and dietary frame work for a righteous nation to prosper and maintain high quality health and hygiene.
Now, I am humble enough and open minded enough to consider that (our) Creator instead of being the end all be all of the 5% to 10% of the seeable universe we believe we perceive and understand or the complete universe (the other we don’t yet see) is simply the most evolved sentient beings we have encountered to date and not the creator of it all. (I bet you grab and cling to the threads of theories) ensconced by the scientific priesthood who have zero agenda even though their funding comes through the likes of the trillion-air family looking for the escape pod and weaponry to defeat the Supreme(s). Your arrogance clouds your ability to travel back in time through vernacular (of the ages) to engage your imagination and genetic recordings in your book of life and the experiences recorded by those before us to realize we are living a SCRIPTure. I could expound and loosen the bonds and chains of trepidation you bathe in, but I can tell by your prophecy’s you enjoy king of the hill but, your not.
We can coexist, share, teach, and learn from each other, if you want to? I would like and enjoy it. One more thought. Can we now 2,000 years later create virgin births?
Yes on the virgin births ghana. Men are having babies while still virgins. Otherwise, I was convinced when you mentioned your rods and your staffs. I don’t refer to mine as a rod but I know what you’re on about.
luv from Canada.
Actually you didn’t get the direction I was going. Women having in vitro fertilization and a virgin birth not men, although their seed without intercourse is part of the path no doubt. Prominent scientists breaking barriers for time travel, quantum computing and the list goes on. These are the possible answers for what we try to decipher from men and women lacking the words to explain technology being deployed 2,000 years ago. There are scientists developing, m theory, string theory, genetically modified humans, organ farming from stem cells instead of a rats back. I am not stupid, unread, uninterested, or willing to believe that scientists, academics, politicians, CEO’s, NGO’s, CIA, RFB, DEA, care about my pursuit of life, liberty and happiness as a priority for them. They murder or create the tools for murder and theft of my blood, sweat and tears far more often than they ever care about my comfort. They are capable of the most heinous acts for their comfort and benefits regardless whether they are bloods or crips. A house, nation, and planet divided cannot stand. A Supreme species will not give pearls (planets) to pigs who trample them into mud.
The Word is the original Code for all life and He walked here. Believing that, confessing that is all that’s required of me to receive the promise of experiencing all of the created. You, Trump, Trudeau, Clinton, or the enemy can never take that hope away from me.
In order for the false prophet described in the new testament to be cast into the abyss along with their father; the first liar and murderer, they must be outed. That my brothers and sisters is the apocalypse which sets the table for the great tribulation. A time like no other time in the entire history of human kind. We were warned and given signs to look for.
Don’t purposely fu– up a conversation with your sky fairy imaginings. If there’s such a thing as trolling then that’s the worst example.
It’s a very legitimate charge that should result in it being stopped!
While nearly all other trolling charges are nothing but bias of one individual’s opinion against another.
Stop it! This is the 21st. century and the earth is not 6000 years old!
Listen up Canuck. Go intercourse yourself. Free of charge! No where did I state the earth was 6000 years old. I stated that a prophecy predicted this 2000 years ago in specific terms. Whether you like it or agree is of no consequence to me. Since you don’t understand our First Amendment gives me the right to speak and even repeat someone else’s experience over the internet MY country created, STFU. Better yet climb your alligator fingers and chicken ass on a train, bus or plain to San Antonio and I with gladly apply some Israelite justice to your petulant Canadian ass. Aye?
Before my God delivers tribulation to your wicked soul.
O.k. then I apologize if you’re going to sic your god on me. No fair coming back at me with the big guns though. LOL
luv from Canada.
p.s. on the other hand, could you arrange for your dog (god) to take me halfway to his eternal fires? It’s close to zero outside here today.
Brimstone through the roof be good or something more grand? Be good, aye!
Well, the sun has come out here at least and so I think it’s probably up a few degrees to maybe +2 or +3. No fires yet though. I’ll wait until the sun revolves around the earth to where it’s directly overhead.
luv from Canada.
I believe that to be the same spread the Cowboy’s will beat the Packers by. Thanks for the warm feelings!
propaganda + uninformed/misinformed people = false mass beliefs
The Americans who STILL are clueless about the propaganda, REAL PROPAGANDA, that the mainstream media peddles just don’t realize how traitorous their ignorance is. There is NO excuse for it at all! Turn off your TV’s and read some FACTUAL information instead of all the fictional fairy tale stuff that many Americans are still addicted to to “confirm” their beliefs that have been based on brainwashing and mental conditioning.
The internet? NO, it’s too late for that too. The propagandists own the heads of their victims.
Your libraries? For a very few the truth can be found in books that were written before the US terror campaign in the ME which coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union. Few are capable of doing the research and in fact, most of those books have been burned.
Book burning is not a big one off event in most cases. It’s a slow and incideous process that’s more correctly called shredding.
luv from Canada.
Just more fake news on the part of reuters … but then what would you expect from a cabal controlled rag sheet?
Propaganda at work… How could anyone who still believes what the Fake News are saying not believe Russia is trying to conquer the US by forcefully putting its secret agents into high office?
The Fake News makers at CNN, *NBC, Faux News, ABC, CBS, New York Times and Washington (com)post should be tried for treason.
Maybe another skewed poll heavily oversampling democrats?
Whatching CNN / FOX / Media one think conspiracy among these it feels preparation for the war and first they are doing brainwashing ignorant public for demonizing Russians.
The same polls, that gave Trump 10% chance of winning ??
If these polling people have taught us anything, its to completely ignore anything they have to say on any subject.. they have proven themselves to be pathological lying psychopaths!