Written by Eric Zuesse
This question gets to the heart of whether the Government is a democracy, or is instead a dictatorship. If the majority of people in a country say no to it, then almost by definition, that country is a dictatorship.
America and its colonies (‘allies’) argue against countries that they want to conquer, by saying that the given targeted country is a dictatorship instead of a democracy; but the only country that has been scientifically analyzed to determine whether it is a democracy has been the United States, and all of these studies have found it to be a dictatorship; so, America’s pontificating against governments it aims to “regime-change” is nothing else than aggression that is ‘justified’ by lies. Any dictatorship that tries to overthrow another country’s Government is itself the quintessential example of what it claims to detest, and so such a Government should be condemned and rejected by the entire international community, which should declare all contracts with it to be automatically null and void, and the U.N. should declare strict sanctions against such a hypocritical dictatorship.
Although other countries haven’t been analyzed in such depth as to whether they are a democracy or instead a dictatorship, good polls have been done in which the polling asks the same question in a multitude of countries so that the findings in any one of the countries can be compared with the findings in a different one of those countries. The wordings of the questions in different ones of these international polls aren’t identical, but they all are versions of the question, “Does your Government represent you, or not?” It’s a question which Governments such as America’s would much prefer not to be asked, much less answered, because answering it in the American case would expose the fraudulence of the ‘democratic’ ‘justification’ for the U.S. Government’s many actions of subversions, sanctions, coups, and invasions, to “regime-change” or replace foreign Governments so as to expand America’s empire.
The present article extracts this information from two such international polls that were done by Gallup International, one in 2018, which was reported in 2019, and the other in 2020, which was reported in 2021. The relevant questions in each will be stated, and the rank-orderings will be shown here, though the polling organization avoided offending any Government and therefore buried instead of stated the rankings. I present it though they had hid it.
I also present some unrelated informations that I consider to be of interest from the poll-findings, such as the extent to which the publics within the various nations believe that by the year 2030, each of the three nations China, USA and Russia, will be a “Superpower” nation. To the extent that the public within a given nation view each of those nations as being likely to be a “Superpower” in 2030, that nation’s Government might be more inclined than otherwise to seek favorable relations with it. I am including that information here because, to my knowledge, it has never been extracted — much less highlighted — before.
In the presentation of the findings, I boldface U.S. scores because the U.S. is the only country that claims to have the right to rule over the entire world and calls itself “the one indispensable nation” (meaning that all others are “dispensable”)…
“42nd Annual Global End of Year Survey: 2018 Opinion Poll in 58 Countries Across the Globe” 2019 report (no polling was done in China)
“To what extent are you satisfied with the current government in your country?” Satisfied minus Dissatisfied (the country’s net score):
1 Saudi Arabia +91%
2 Ethiopia +71%
3 India +54%
4 Philippines +52%
5 Switzerland +44%
6 Kazakhstan +43%
7 Pakistan +43%
8 Armenia +39%
9 Indonesia +20%
10 Ghana +18%
11 Nigeria +18%
12 Afghanistan +12%
13 Albania +12%
14 Serbia +7%
15 Macedonia +6%
16 Turkey +3%
17 Austria 0
18 Syria -3%
19 Czechia -5%
20 Ecuador -6%
21 Italy -6%
22 Peru -9%
23 Paraguay -11%
24 Poland -11%
25 Russia -12%
26 Korea -12%
27 Colombia -15%
28 Finland -18%
29 Kosovo -18%
30 Germany -20%
31 Hungary -30%
32 Thailand -30%
33 Bulgaria -33%
34 Hong Kong -34%
35 USA -35%
36 Japan -35%
37 Ukraine -37%
38 UK -37%
39 Spain -40%
40 Argentina -41%
41 Moldova -42%
42 Bosnia -42%
43 Iraq -43%
44 Romania -45%
45 France -56%
“‘In general, do you trust your National media?’ Usually, To some extent, Not at all.” Lowest “Not at all” ranks are calculated here, because the lowness of the percentage of respondents who answered “Not at all” would indicate that that nation’s population have not generally found their national media to have asserted things that subsequently turned out to have been false.
The most democratic countries won’t only avoid censoring media but won’t encourage censorship by the media, and to the extent that there is no censorship, a reasonable assumption would be that trust in the media would be high, and that therefore the smaller the percentage who say that they trust “your national media” not at all, the public believe that the “National media” are not being censored. If a person in a different country disagrees with the opinions of the people within the given country about this, then any such person is assuming to know more about the national media within that country than the residents there do; and I cannot think of a rational basis for such an assumption, but I can think of many irrational bases for it. One should always have an open mind to the possibility that one believes something that is, in fact, false. It’s the only way to improve one’s beliefs.
4%: Afghanistan, Indonesia, Philippines
7%: Thailand
8%: Finland, Japan, Vietnam
10%: India
11%: Ghana
12%: Kosovo
13%: Switzerland
15%: Ethiopia
16%: Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia
18%: Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia
19%: Austria, Germany
20%: Macedonia, Paraguay
21%: Czechia
22%: Poland, UK
24%: Armenia, Ecuador
25%: Italy
26%: Argentina, USA
27%: Albania
30%: Bulgaria, Colombia, Romania
31%: Syria
32%: France
34%: Ukraine
36%: Serbia
37%: Moldova, Spain
42%: Hungary, Iraq
47%: Turkey
58%: Bosnia&Herzegovina
Gallup International 2020 polling, 2021 report 45 countries (no China) (Link)
pp.104-5: “My country is ruled by the will of the people”: India 83% (#2), Russia 36%, U.S. 46%, EU 44%, Japan 40%, Korea 57%, Iraq 30%, Indonesia 58%, Azerbaijan 84% (#1), Kyrgyzstan 67%, Bosnia 8%, Ukraine 23%, Poland 31%
pp.112-3: “Which of these powers do you think will be a superpower in the world in 2030?”
USA: Global average 56%, Russia 25%, U.S. 65%, Vietnam 92% (#1),Kyrgyzstan 37%, Ukraine 36%, Finland 81% (#2), India 66%, Indonesia 65%
Russia: Global average 43%, Russia 32%, U.S. 32%, Vietnam 57%, Kyrgyzstan 75% (#2), Ukraine 16% (#45), Armenia 76% (#1), Turkey 29%, India 47%, Indonesia 44%
China: Global average 59%, Russia 38%, U.S. 62%, Vietnam 42%, Kyrgyzstan 53%, Ukraine 56%, Kenya 14% (#45), Thailand 78% (#2), India 23%, Indonesia 69%, Korea 70%, Finland 86% (#1)
As I earlier pointed out in a similar article that I did on the Edelman Trust Barometer’s findings, “How Nations’ Citizens Rate Their Own Government”,
Russia is an outlier, off a cliff at the very bottom of trust in every institution except their Government itself, where it is ranked adjoining the U.S. immediately above and Japan immediately below. Perhaps the major thing that explains this anomaly is that, other than perhaps China and India on the list, Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, has a higher approval-rating from his countrymen than any other nation’s leader does. He is only a part of Russia’s Government, but he is the part that the U.S. and its ‘allies’ have long been obsessed to overthrow and replace; and, yet, his approval-rating from his countrymen is enormously higher than is the approval-rating of any of his enemies, such as Joe Biden, and Rishi Sunak, in their own countries, Putin’s enemies who want to take over his country. Perhaps Russians in Russia are a bit reluctant to score their Government at the very bottom because there is a part of that Government of which they are deeply respectful, and greatly admire; and they know that Russia’s enemies around the world are obsessed to eliminate only that part of their Government.
I have also explained elsewhere why — despite Russians’ remarkably high level of distrust in institutions — the level of trust that Russians have in their nation’s leader since the year 2000 is so extraordinarily high.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
president putin turned the country around and has improved the lives of every russian. the western leaders have only seen their economies collapse and their people reduced to poverty. this during each of their tenure. nothing has improved by design. russia only need to wait around and not be drawn into trouble whilst the west devours itself. the usadmin tactic of projection has been done to death and is no longer viable.
i disagree on the waiting part. the west will not go down quietly, it will pull everyone and everything down with it.
short of nuclear war, i don’t see what else nato could do. the bric countries, apart from argentina, are pretty solid. an attack on one will definitely involve the block. the bric members of south america are the most vulnerable. any messing around in the persian gulf will result in major losses as they all have missiles these days which could take out the sitting ducks of nato. things have moved on somewhat since the gulf war.
completely agreed with erick zuesse on this one! western allied countries are occupied countries, in western world they all pretend to be saints while they are real cannibals, but this cannibalism is orchestrated from the top, from the goverments, religion, civil institutions. felonies are not punished, judicial system is a charade, democracy is just an utopic ideal while the goverments keeps abusing on their civil population. they only are occupied countries by the masters who ruled at the top.
you’re right. but iwant to add something. after the 18th century revolutions the western world changed its masters from monarchy to bourgeoisy. the “god” of the bourgeoisy is money. that’s why the jews have taken control of the west. read deuteronomy 15:6.
i’m not into biblical stuff, people who read the bible lives in the eternal limbo. to christians doesn’t exist anything, doesn’t exist a body, they live in a world of dreams, christ itself was a dream of wicked minds, in the beginning they kill all the fathers, and rape the womans and converted barbarians into christianity childrens, that’s a very very simplified way, if i want i can write a thousand pages book with explanations, real facts. schopenhauer and f. nietzsche show me the way.
so much distrust and dissatisfaction from ordinary russians.
this is a good thing, never trust completely those that have power over you!
gallup poll??? ffs…you lost me there…. as for “the only way to improve one’s beliefs.” (sic)
belief is the enemy of knowledge and knowledge is but the child of wisdom.