Gallop: Fewer Americans Want U.S. Taking Major Role in World Affairs
* 65% want leading or major role for U.S.
* Republicans much less likely to favor prominent role than in past
* Most Americans dissatisfied with U.S. position in world
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sixty-five percent of Americans prefer the U.S. to take the leading (20%) or a major role (45%) in world affairs. This is down from 69% in 2019 and 72% as recently as 2017. The current figure is one percentage point below the prior low from 2011. In almost all years since Gallup first asked the question in 2001, more than seven in 10 Americans have favored a leading or major role for the U.S., including a high of 79% in February 2003.
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WNU Editor: The world is a different place today, and many are not sympathetic to Washington. As the world breaks up into multi-polar blocs, there is going to be push-back against the U.S. and its economic/political/military/and social policies.
My hope is that the foreign policy experts in Washington are smart enough to realize that, and be able to maneuver US foreign policy to safeguard US interests, while respecting what other countries want. This could be a new age for the US on the world stage, or a mess of disputes and conflicts that will only drain the US in both blood and treasure.
4 comments:
You, my friend, are way off course on this one.
Azmith check. As long as US Foreign Policy is run , dominated and determined the the Capital District's ideoluges crew, there will be no peace.
We have become what the founding fathers feared, a nation chasing monsters. These guys are not even using "strategic value" as a metric. They are flying on pure ideology and that is why our foreign policy is so messed up
Anon 11:00
I try to stay optimistic.
It's hard, but someone has to.
Considering the modest leadership and the mistakes made by this leadership I'm not surprised at such a decline in support for a continuation of same. The reason for invading Iraq, nuclear weapons, turned out to be a complete falsehood. The war on terror accomplished little of positive note unless one owned stock in an arms manufacturer and still continues. I'll not mention the debt burden and casualties, both deaths and wounded.
Not a stellar record.
The thinking is that a victory in Ukraine will wash away the blemishes of the last few decades of foreign policy.
We're not the guys who park our deathstar over some third world shit hole and reduce it's people to a stone age existence. We're the guys who saved europe for a second time by supporting the objectively good side.
It could be an effective short-term PR strategy to keep the american public complacent. But ultimately we're still broke and maxing out another credit card, even for a noble war, is going to continue waking up more and more Americans to the self destructive path that the elite class is sending us down.
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