Amazing poll at The Independent

Okay, I admit it, when I first saw this one I thought that this might be an April's Fool.  Not because I disagree with the results, oh no, but because I am amazed that so many people in the UK (of all places!!!) would feel likewise.  But this is for real.  See for yourself:

The Independent posted a piece about Nigel Farage saying that Putin's was the world leader he most admired.  Nice, but coming from Farage, not really surprising.  But then the Independent asked its readers who their favorite world leader was.  And here are the results as of April 5th, 16:33 (EST): (and check the original article here):

Now, I understand that this is not a "scientific poll", and that maybe some other "Putin groupie" besides me is out there clicking "Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin", but somehow I doubt it.  But even if there is such a Putin fanboy, this begs the question why there is no Cameron or Obama fanboy out there doing the same for his favorite leader.  Either Putin does inspire a lot of people, or he inspires a few people a lot - something which the other leaders clearly don't.

The other thing which really has to be noted over and over again is that this is a poll taken by a British newspaper smack in the middle of the Anglosphere - this is not Zimbabwe or Guyana.  And for me this poll, just as the other one I posted, shows that when we say that "the Anglosphere" does this or that we have to stress over and over again that we are talking about the power structure, the 1% running the Empire, and not the Anglo people who both in the USA and in the UK seem to have a very different view of these matters than their rulers.

Finally, this also corroborates something which I have been saying here before: Putin is, objectively, the world leader of the Axis of Resistance to Empire.  Of course, he is not alone, at the very least other leaders such as (in no particular order) Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei, Hassan Nasrallah, Evo Morales, Nicolas Maduro, Daniel Ortega, Bashar Assad, Rafael Correa, Alexander Lukashenko, Serzh Sargsyan, Raul Castro and Nursultan Nazarbayev deserve to be mentioned alongside Putin.  Each one of them is trying, as be he knows, to resist, but only Russia can oppose full-spectrum resistance to the Empire's full-spectrum aggression and nobody can dispute the fact that Russia can do that today only because of what should be called the "Putin miracle" (remember that just 2 decades ago Russia was in the same situation as the Ukraine today:run by US-controlled oligarchs and crooks).

I am becoming convinced that most of the world population, exhausted and disgusted from being serfs of the AngoZionist Empire, also understand that and that if it was possible to organize an objective and fair poll worldwide, Putin would come out as the most popular leaders world wide, by a wide margin.

I think that Putin deserves that and I hope that this awareness will give him strength to continue to resist not only for Russia and its sovereignty, but for all of us who, as Arundhati Roy put it, are "subjects of the Empire".

The Saker

Interesting poll on US public opinion towards the Ukrain

Reason.com reports: 
 
Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Want the US to Stay Out of Ukraine

Emily Ekins|April 4, 2014 6:56 pm



As tensions rise between Ukraine and Russia, America’s foreign policy hawks argue the US needs to do more. However, Reason-Rupe finds war-weary Americans are reluctant to get involved in yet another conflict abroad. My college Zenon Evans writes more about this here.

Conservative hawks like Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and US Sen. John McCain say we need to do more. Kristol argued that the US is partly responsible for what’s happening today because we didn’t get involved after the Orange Revolution in 2004, and therefore “we now need to help them.” John McCainwants the US to push for moving Ukraine into NATO, which would obligate the US to intervene in conflicts like these.

President Obama has urged caution saying that Ukraine is not “some Cold War chessboard in which we’re in competition with Russia.” Sen. Rand Paul happened to agree contending "some on our side are so stuck in the Cold War era that they want to tweak Russia all the time, and I don't think that is a good idea."

Americans tend to agree the US should not get involved. In fact, when asked what they’d like to do regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 58 percent would prefer the US stay out of it completely. Thirty-one percent would prefer the US continue imposing economic sanctions and only 8 percent want the US to send troops.



If Russia attempts to invade additional parts of Ukraine, Americans continue to overwhelmingly oppose the US sending troops, with 76 percent opposed and 20 percent in favor, and even oppose sending military aid and weapons to Ukraine, with 62 percent opposed and 33 percent in favor. However, only 32 percent would oppose imposing stricter economic sanctions on Russia, while 61 percent favor that approach. This is not because Americans necessarily believe sanctions will solve the problem, but rather they view it as a symbolic gesture to communicate to Russia that they don't condone its actions.

Opposition to military intervention or interference in Ukraine extends beyond partisanship, although Republicans are more likely to support involvement than Democrats. For instance, while a majority (53 percent) of Republicans oppose sending military aid, this number jumps to 68 percent among Democrats. When it comes to imposing stricter economic sanctions if Russia sends in more troops, Democrats and Republicans are equally in favor with roughly 6 in 10 in support. However, political independents are the most skeptical of further involvement only 41 percent favor and 48 percent opposed.



Millennials, many of whom came of political age during the Bush administration and two unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are the most opposed to US involvement in Ukraine. Young people’s skepticism is not reserved for military intervention; they are the most likely group to oppose imposing further economic sanctions on Russia as well.

While many Americans lost confidence in President Bush’s foreign policy approach, only a third think President Obama’s is any better, and a third think it’s worse. Regarding Ukraine specifically, nearly a quarter of Americans don’t now enough about the situation to evaluate Obama’s performance, while 37 approve and 40 disapprove.

Opposition to US intervention in Ukraine plays a more important role than partisanship in explaining Americans’ evaluation of President Obama’s handling of the situation. Among those who disapprove of Obama’s handling of Ukraine, only 26 percent want the US to continue imposing economic sanctions and 61 percent want the US to stay out of it. However, among those who approve, roughly half support the administration’s policy while the other half want to stay out of it. Nevertheless, partisans are equally likely to support sanctions (31%) or staying out of it (58%). Nationwide telephone poll conducted March 26-30 2014 interviewed 1003 adults on both mobile (503) and landline (500) phones, with a margin of error +/- 3.6%. Princeton Survey Research Associates International executed the nationwide Reason-Rupe survey. Columns may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Full poll results, detailed tables, and methodology found here. Sign up for notifications of new releases of the Reason-Rupe poll here.

Two-thirds of Iranians behind Ahmadinejad (MUST READ!)

Voltairenet reports:

The International Peace Institute recently released the results of a telephone survey of Iranians.

According to the poll, Iranians are clearly split in a one third/two thirds ratio. The majority came out in favour of continuing the Islamic Revolution under President Ahmadinejad. On its part, the minority wishes to suspend financial support to Hamas and Hezbollah, hopes for closer ties with the United States, and backs opposition leader Moussavi.

The International Peace Institute is chaired by Terje Rød-Larsen, a Norwegian politician who served as minister of administration in his country’s government before being forced to resign because of his implication in a tax and corrumption scandal. At that point, he was fished out by the United States which had him appointed UN Special Envoy to Lebanon, a mandate which he used to obstruct Syrian and Iranian influence.

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==>>Check out the very interesting opinion survey:<<==

Iran : Public Opinion on Foreign, Nuclear and Domestic Issues, a survey carried out by Charney Research on behalf of the International Peace Institute, 8 December 2010 (230 Ko).

25% of Israeli Jews Jews Doubt Israel Will Live Long

AL-QUDS, Sept. 7--A quarter of Jewish Israelis doubt that the occupying regime will exist long-term, an opinion poll revealed Friday.

According to the results published in the leading Yediot Aharonot newspaper, more than 70 percent have a bad assessment of the Zionist regime's security situation.

When asked if they "felt certain that Israel will exist in the distant future", 25 percent of respondents said no and 74 percent of the respondents said yes.

Only 57 percent of respondents said it was safer for Jewish people to live in Occupied Palestine than in the West, compared to 39 percent who said it was safer in the West or amounted to the same thing.

Although 86 percent described their mood as "good" as opposed to "bad", 72 percent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the security situation.

Some 26 percent described the security situation as "good".

The poll was carried out by an independent institute. It was based on a sample of about 500 Jewish Israelis and had a margin of error of 4.5 percent.