Which Country is the Greatest Threat to World Peace Today?

[georgephillip]

It's not Iran, Pakistan, or China; however, the latter two nation state finished among the top three according to WIN/Gallup's latest annual global End of the Year survey.

Number one is the USA

"As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: 'Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?'

"The United States was the champion by a substantial margin, winning three times the votes of second-place Pakistan.

"By contrast, the debate in American scholarly and media circles is about whether Iran can be contained, and whether the huge NSA surveillance system is needed to protect U.S. security.

"In view of the poll, it would seem that there are more pertinent questions: Can the United States be contained and other nations secured in the face of the U.S. threat?"

Nations like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, and Iran, for example.

Noam Chomsky | Prerogatives of Power

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Agree, it's us in the USA. For all their faults, DPRK, Iran, Afganistan, Russia, they're not startng wars and toppling other countries, we are.

 

[Billo_Really]

It's not Iran, Pakistan, or China; however, the latter two nation state finished among the top three according to WIN/Gallup's latest annual global End of the Year survey.

Number one is the USA

"As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: 'Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?'

"The United States was the champion by a substantial margin, winning three times the votes of second-place Pakistan.

"By contrast, the debate in American scholarly and media circles is about whether Iran can be contained, and whether the huge NSA surveillance system is needed to protect U.S. security.

"In view of the poll, it would seem that there are more pertinent questions: Can the United States be contained and other nations secured in the face of the U.S. threat?"

Nations like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, and Iran, for example.

Noam Chomsky | Prerogatives of Power

Can we be contained?

We have over a 1000 bases all around the world.

It's a little too late for that question!

 

[georgephillip]

Agree, it's us in the USA. For all their faults, DPRK, Iran, Afganistan, Russia, they're not startng wars and toppling other countries, we are.

And we're doing all this on the opposite side of the planet from our homeland.
What happens to Mexico if the Petrodollar collapses, and the US can't borrow enough money to create a "Free" Kurdistan from the rubble of Iraq, Syria, and Iran?

 

[georgephillip]

It's not Iran, Pakistan, or China; however, the latter two nation state finished among the top three according to WIN/Gallup's latest annual global End of the Year survey.

Number one is the USA

"As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: 'Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?'

"The United States was the champion by a substantial margin, winning three times the votes of second-place Pakistan.

"By contrast, the debate in American scholarly and media circles is about whether Iran can be contained, and whether the huge NSA surveillance system is needed to protect U.S. security.

"In view of the poll, it would seem that there are more pertinent questions: Can the United States be contained and other nations secured in the face of the U.S. threat?"

Nations like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, and Iran, for example.

Noam Chomsky | Prerogatives of Power

Can we be contained?

We have over a 1000 bases all around the world.

It's a little too late for that question!

Only if we continue "choosing" between Republican OR Democrat for our House and Senate representatives.

If your ballot offers third party alternatives, why not choose one instead of another corporate drone from the War and Debt Parties?

 

[Indofred]

As we've seen with the "fuck the E.U." recording, America has its fat nose in everyone else's politics.
That creates enemies and war.

People hate the U.S. because your foreign policy of creating unrest and division makes people hate you.
Add American governments' love of starting wars and you have a pretty evil country.

 

[rightwinger]

It is the US

We are also the first ones they call when they need help

 

[dannyboys]

As we've seen with the "fuck the E.U." recording, America has its fat nose in everyone else's politics.
That creates enemies and war.

People hate the U.S. because your foreign policy of creating unrest and division makes people hate you.
Add American governments' love of starting wars and you have a pretty evil country.

Then do yourself a favor and fuck off to Haiti.
Which country does every other country on the planet run to begging for help in a crisis?
But you do have a point.
The next time one of the countries whose population "hates" America gets into trouble I'm all for telling them to solve their own problems.
Oh yeah. The next time anyone from one of those countries is pleading to come live in America I'm all for telling them to fuck off.

 

[georgephillip]

As we've seen with the "fuck the E.U." recording, America has its fat nose in everyone else's politics.
That creates enemies and war.

People hate the U.S. because your foreign policy of creating unrest and division makes people hate you.
Add American governments' love of starting wars and you have a pretty evil country.

US elites depend on war and debt in ways that are similar to every other Empire through out history. While there's little doubt a great deal of evil has come from these policies, it's also possible to see ways to reform US foreign policy by incentivizing peace instead of eternal war and endless debt.

 

[Vox]

Russia. As usual.

 

[georgephillip]

It is the US

We are also the first ones they call when they need help

I think that often depends on your definition of "they."

"Few Latin Americans are likely to question the judgment of Cuban nationalist hero José Martí, who wrote in 1894 that 'The further they draw away from the United States, the freer and more prosperous the [Latin] American people will be.'

"Martí’s judgment has been confirmed in recent years, once again by an analysis of poverty by the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, released last month.

"The U.N. report shows that far-reaching reforms have sharply reduced poverty in Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and some other countries where U.S. influence is slight, but that it remains abysmal in others - namely, those that have long been under U.S. domination, like Guatemala and Honduras.

"Even in relatively wealthy Mexico, under the umbrella of the North American Free Trade Agreement, poverty is severe, with 1 million added to the numbers of the poor in 2013."

Noam Chomsky | Prerogatives of Power

 

[georgephillip]

Russia. As usual.

"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.

"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."

Global Results, End of Year survey, George gallup, WIN, WIN/Gallup International, Gallup International

 

[JimH52]

It is the US

We are also the first ones they call when they need help

Exactly! The US is the bog bad wolf until one of these countries needs us. Most would be speaking German if we had not stepped in.

 

[Vox]

Russia. As usual.

"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.

"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."

Global Results, End of Year survey, George gallup, WIN, WIN/Gallup International, Gallup International

I don't care what the paid talking heads are saying or what the idiots polled are saying - those same idiot voted for obama, so I am not surprised.

the greatest threat to the peace in the world is RUSSIA - as it has been for the last 400 years at least.

if you want to understand it - check the history of the world and not the brainwashing media you are listening to.

No end visible for the trend.

 

[Dot Com]

its all about opening up markets to our big biz & banksters.

 

[Sherry]

Everybody loves to hate a super power.

 

[blastoff]

The rest of the world. They're always there when they need us.

We should adopt a policy of not jumping in where help is needed until others have and are prepared to invest, proportionally, the same as we are. Until or unless, we're not interested.

 

[georgephillip]

Russia. As usual.

"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.

"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."

Global Results, End of Year survey, George gallup, WIN, WIN/Gallup International, Gallup International

I don't care what the paid talking heads are saying or what the idiots polled are saying - those same idiot voted for obama, so I am not surprised.

the greatest threat to the peace in the world is RUSSIA - as it has been for the last 400 years at least.

if you want to understand it - check the history of the world and not the brainwashing media you are listening to.

No end visible for the trend.

Russian drones aren't murdering and maiming US civilians:

"Sometimes the reasons for the world’s concerns are obliquely recognized in the United States, as when former CIA director Michael Hayden, discussing Obama’s drone murder campaign, conceded that 'Right now, there isn’t a government on the planet that agrees with our legal rationale for these operations, except for Afghanistan and maybe Israel.'”

Noam Chomsky | Prerogatives of Power

Why don't you explain how Russia's been the greatest threat to world peace "for the last 400 years at least."

 

[rdean]

Agree, it's us in the USA. For all their faults, DPRK, Iran, Afganistan, Russia, they're not startng wars and toppling other countries, we are.

Seems to depend on how much power Republicans have.

 

[aaronleland]

"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.

"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."

Global Results, End of Year survey, George gallup, WIN, WIN/Gallup International, Gallup International

I don't care what the paid talking heads are saying or what the idiots polled are saying - those same idiot voted for obama, so I am not surprised.

the greatest threat to the peace in the world is RUSSIA - as it has been for the last 400 years at least.

if you want to understand it - check the history of the world and not the brainwashing media you are listening to.

No end visible for the trend.

Russian drones aren't murdering and maiming US civilians:

"Sometimes the reasons for the world’s concerns are obliquely recognized in the United States, as when former CIA director Michael Hayden, discussing Obama’s drone murder campaign, conceded that 'Right now, there isn’t a government on the planet that agrees with our legal rationale for these operations, except for Afghanistan and maybe Israel.'”

Noam Chomsky | Prerogatives of Power

Why don't you explain how Russia's been the greatest threat to world peace "for the last 400 years at least."

Vox refuses to back any of her bullshit up with facts. She knows what she knows, and that's good enough for her. In other words, she is a retard.