Well, what about pro-US countries? Curious abour those.
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Turn out, restricting trade and fuck up the trade route isn't as good of a policy as Trump think.
Edit: it make sense the one have the high margin are the one that is grographically closer to China than US, trade are often easier within asia than having to deal with someone half-way across the globe, and hating them is even easier. And China is so far doing a great job making people not hate them^*†^
* if you're not local small manufacturers/business owner that have to compete with ultra-competitive chinese business
† if you don't care about human right of other country(or yours)
pakistan has always had close relationship with CHINA, mainly as an advesary to INDIA, and they helped pakistan with thier nuclear weapons development.
Russia likes the US more than China 👋👋👋✋👋👋👋
Russian propaganda today: ~~we love 'em~~ ~~we hate 'em~~ ~~we love 'em~~ ~~we hate 'em~~ ~~we love 'em~~ ~~we hate 'em~~ we love 'em
Why doesn't Turkiye like the US?
Mostly because of their involvement in Turkish domestic affairs. Just one example. (Of course they denied it later.) There are a lot of things like this, especially behind the curtain. On the other hand, our societary memory is bad in general, so the younguns don't know much about them. It appears, they at least know the general idea.
Erdogan has this big enemy (forgot his name, he has quite some followers i believe) he rightfully or wrongfully claims tried to organise a coup, ten years or so ago. The main guy lives in the US and the US does not want to extradite him for good or bad reasons. I'm not sure what to believe about this, but i suppose something like that can generate quite some hate - especially since Erdogan seems to care as little about facts as Trump does and controls the 'legit' Turkish media, and thus controls the narrative about his big enemy and how the US goes against Turkey's interests.
Edit:
- the big enemy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen
- his followers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement
- the attempted coup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d'%C3%A9tat_attempt
I think the US is reasonably happy with Erdogan, even if he's an opportunistic snake.
They support whatever regime as long as they can have their bases there or act as vassals.
The rehabilitated headchopper Jolani is a marvelous recent example.
Might be, but the graph isn't about how positively US gov views Turkey's gov so not that relevant to this post.
LOL It was you specifically who mentioned Erdogan
Yes because i replied to the question about how Turkish people view the US, that comment and my reply are relevant to the topic of the post. Your reply is where it goes off topic.
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Wait a second - you mean people have an opinion about the country they hear the most about? And they have a negative opinion about the ones that have the most negative information presented about them? Ya don't say?
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I mean right now?
What's wrong with Nigeria and Kenya, can they read or speak? Do they get the news?
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