Who are the enemies for US citizens

After years of ups and downs in the list of countries considered America's greatest enemy, opinions on the matter have solidified, with two countries – China and Russia – emerging as America's greatest enemies.

However, as Katharina Buchholz of Statista reports, if Americans were to single out one country as their nation's main enemy, right now it would be China.

In a poll conducted by Gallup at regular intervals since 2005, 50% of respondents pointed the finger at Beijing.

Five years ago, the culprit was North Korea (51%), but this year the country has settled in third place, with Russia identified as state enemy number two (32%).

In 2020, the poll was conducted immediately after the killing of General Qasem Soleimani and 19% of US respondents named Iran as the country's main enemy. This year the number has dropped to 2%.

2017 saw heightened tensions with North Korea over the country's long-range missile capabilities, which has pushed up the number of Americans who view the country as the biggest threat. In September of that year, President Donald Trump famously threatened to "totally destroy" the country in a speech at the United Nations and dubbed Kim Jong-un a "rocket man" on Twitter. Tensions eased in the following years, after two highly publicized summits between the two leaders in Singapore in June 2018 and Hanoi in February 2019. As a result, the perceived threat from the country decreased again.

In the late 2000s, Iran and Iraq were often singled out as the main enemies of the United States. Since 2011, the latter has dropped to single digits, recording less than 1% of responses since 2021.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/chi-sono-i-nemici-per-i-cittadini-usa/ on Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:55 +0000.