Exclusive: poll across 15 countries finds ‘deep mistrust’, with majority doubting US would come to their aid in an attack

Exclusive: poll across 15 countries finds ‘deep mistrust’, with majority doubting US would come to their aid in an attack

European confidence in an American “security guarantee” has hit a historic low, a survey suggests, with only one in 10 people across 15 countries seeing the US as an ally and majorities in all doubting it would come to their aid if they were attacked.

The survey, published on Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktank before critical G7 and Nato summits in France and Turkey over the coming weeks, revealed “deep European distrust in the US”, the authors said.

It also showed that, while many Europeans felt relations with Washington would improve once Donald Trump leaves office, they were increasingly ready in the meantime to protect themselves against US unreliability by bolstering Europe’s defence.

  • Ungraded@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    21 hours ago

    I doubt 1 in 10 US Government Officials would see them self as ally to Europe

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    23 hours ago

    It isn’t that the US has changed. It is the same as it has always been. It didn’t come to Europe’s “aid” until it had to defend itself against the Axis. It has been a American propogated myth that the US aids any other country. The US creates situations to take advantage of other countries and make it seem a benevolent action. The only change is that Trump is too stupid to get the messaging right and says the quiet parts out loud while scamming the American people for his own gain thereby removing America’s political mask and showing America’s real face to the world.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Thats probably a lower rate than current European support for… hitler. or putin.

      Someone in the previous comments said Amerrica is a cancer, but I bet we probably still have higher polling rate than actual cancer. …Probably.

      • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        I can cut out cancer, irradiate it, treat it with chemo

        All I want it’s for the US to fuck off, sit in the corner and stop interfering for the benefit of a handful of rich cunts who will happily watch the world burn, just to accumulate more of something they already have more than they could ever use

  • Gormadt@slrpnk.net
    10·
    2 days ago

    As an American: fair. We have been proving to be quite the assholes (understatement) lately.

    I hope that someday we can gain that trust back but that won’t be for quite sometime and only if we can make a major turn for the better.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      2·
      2 days ago

      There is always that guy or girl with an american flag tattooed that tells you how great it is and that tgey wishes they could move to texas or something

  • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    80 years of investing in soft power down the drain. I’m the nineties people looked up to America. Every movie maar you interested in American culture.

    Great again yet?

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Era of great American media seems to have ended. So few good movies or shows anymore. Just one cop drama show after another and 5 star out of 10 rated movies. Even reddit sucks. Used to train AI and run by a zionist war crimes cheerleader.

  • Babalugats@feddit.ukEnglish
    101·
    3 days ago

    majorities in all doubting it would come to their aid if they were attacked.

    I do believe (maybe naively) if Europe was attacked, that the US would help, probably wouldn’t need them, but it would be more to their advantage to help, than if they didn’t. But I don’t trust the US in terms of keeping their “house” in order. The big companies that are around the world heavily lobbying, breaking laws and encouraging blatant corruption, came from there and now the rest of the world have to deal with them. They also voted Trump in.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      I do believe (maybe naively) if Europe was attacked, that the US would help, probably wouldn’t need them, but it would be more to their advantage to help, than if they didn’t.

      But the bozo we have in charge here is entirely transactional. So if Europe were attacked, the US might send help, but might send all out troops back via Greenland, then decide that it’s only fair for “Europe” to hand it over in exchange.

      • Siegehammer85@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        I believe that if Europe is going to be attacked it will be Russia supported by the US or the US and Russia working together. The billionaires and the GoP hate Europe, our regulations and not prioritizing corporations over people’s rights. They want to own us or destabilize us so they can take us down. The US has been our enemy for 50 years, look at what they did to the middle east, that’s our fate if we don’t because self sufficient.

      • Babalugats@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        No doubt he would. He would probably ask the British Royal Family to hand over Canada as well… 😅