What country do Americans fear the most?
Critical Analysis
Find answers to the following questions using the visual above, any links below, your big brain, and your knowledge of American government and politics:
According to the visual, what country do American consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy today?
Describe the biggest change in who Americans consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy over the past year?
Why do you think that is?
Last year in a bipartisan vote, the the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill forcing TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app, or face a ban. The Supreme Court ruled that ban to be constitutional. Donald Trump has refused to enforce that ban. Describe one other U.S. policy consequence of our fear of China?
The 5% naming the United States as the nation’s greatest enemy is the highest Gallup has recorded since first asking this question in 2001. Why do you think that number is so high?
Besides the evil country of Burma, what country do you consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy today?
As evidenced by this week’s meeting in Saudi Arabia between Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov and Little Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Trump Administration has taken steps to side with Russia in its war on Ukraine, and is looking to relax sanctions against Russia. Why do you think that despite Americans’ fear of Russia as shown in the visual above* the U.S. president is moving to build closer ties with the Russians?
Make a claim about how the data from the visual above impacted the 2024 election?
Based on the visual below, how does party affiliation impact views on foreign threats to the U.S.?
In comments that stunned America’s allies in Europe and angered Ukraine’s government, President Trump on Tuesday blamed Ukraine’s leaders for Russia’s invasion. He also suggested that they do not deserve a seat at the table for the peace talks that he has initiated with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “You should have never started it,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Ukraine’s leaders. “You could have made a deal.” He followed up on Wednesday in a post on social media, calling Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “dictator without elections" and saying he had “done a terrible job” in office. There is no doubt that Russia started the war by invading Ukraine. Russian troops stormed over the border almost exactly three years ago, with the explicit aim of toppling the pro-Western government of Mr. Zelensky in Kyiv, the capital. Russia’s military attacked from the east and north, including from Belarus, as well as from the Russian-occupied southern province of Crimea. That attack started the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. How much do you think President Trump spreading this Russian misinformation will impact our standing in the world?
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