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Is the USA the biggest threat to world peace ? There is an international poll done by Gallup every year. In 2013 they added the question: "Which country is the biggest threat to world peace ?" The results were: #1, 24% of respondents, worldwide, volunteered that the US was «the greatest threat». #2 (the second-most-frequently volunteered greatest threat was Pakistan, volunteered by 8%. #3 was China, with 6%. #s 4-7 were a four-way tie, at 5% each, for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, and North Korea. #s 8-10 were a three-way tie, at 4% each, for: India, Iraq, and Japan. #11 was Syria, with 3%. #12 was Russia, with 2%. #s 13-20 were a seven-way tie, at 1% each, for: Australia, Germany, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea, and UK..... The results surprised me a lot, and it says a lot about how the world sees the USA. That particular question was never included on an international Gallup poll again.

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Krowmagnum 5 Apr 21
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'The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing' Burke
While many countries may take a moral and sometimes military stance against evil it is the USA acts as the world policeman. There have been failures in policy and tactics, but the trend has been to encourage the expansion of democratic freedom around the world.

you think America is motivated by altruism? Are you sure you're an atheist/agnostic?

@Krowmagnum I do not claim the actions are altruistic and interventions are often associated with strategic benefits for western interests - but if a democratic system takes over from a undemocratic system it will be of of overall benefit.

@MsDemeanour The whole of world politics is like a game of chess, with some important pieces and some pawns - there is an overall plan in the west to expand democracy and economic control of resources; tactics and strategy are deployed to support the overall aim - sometimes it works well, sometimes not. It is an imperfect system, but does have some beneficial achievements.

@ShadowAmicus see i don't think it is about democracy at all. capitalism maybe. economic control of resources definitely. Just who the good guys are and who the bad guys are is not always clear.

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I think the U.S. is a threat to world peace, but just not the greatest threat. Those who seek power are thr greatest threat. In the U.S. the drive for power is always tempered with what is most profitable, which holds back the U.S. back from going all out, which would ultimately damage the economy and reduce profits. However the U.S. has pretty much been in the top ten threats to world peace for my entire life.

That we have moved into mor eof a world evonomy, means the rich care more and more free to go too far, was they can minpulate economies with wars to be most profitable to themselves.

Probably the truest line from teh bible is the one that reads "The love of money is the root of all evil". It is oftne misquoted as "the love of money is th eroot of all evil." However to love money mor ethan the well beign of your community, country or humanity in general will pretty much always leads to acts of evil

@Krowmagnum religion and greed

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Are the American taxpayers financing this brouhaha?

zesty Level 7 Apr 21, 2019
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It doesn't surprise me at all. And it irks me that Australia has been there kissing the USA arse everytime it has been dragged into some immoral war. We are just as culpable

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I’m afraid so....and we in the UK have gone along with most of the USA’s warmongering !

At least Tony Blair apologized about Irak, not America...

@Merseyman1 I’m not sure that he actually did apologise.

@Marionville [theguardian.com]

@Merseyman1 Yes...but it’s not sincere...because he says immediately afterwards that removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do....! He was removed by the USA and the UK, because of the oil....there were no weapons of mass destruction, it was regime change plain and simple....and that is against international law....it was unlawful. His apology is worth nothing, he knowingly misled parliament....he lied, he and his pal Bush.

@Marionville All you say is true, and what a pal!

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I don't think another even comes close.

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We have soldiers mostly everywhere and interfere in everybody's politics, support the wrong guys sometimes...

Protecting the Saudi prince over the journalist that was hacked to death with bone saws.

MAGA!

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