Did you know that your favorite troll may be an intel agent?
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Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee
Major Danny Sjursen, US Army (retired)
For decades, freedom and democracy have been part of the U.S. brand. That doesn’t appear to hold true any longer, at least not in established democracies.Soft power dwindling away.
A study commissioned by a group founded by Anders Rasmussen, the former Danish prime minister and North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general,showed that in many Western nations, U.S. foreign policy and well as two mainstays of its global power – the finance and technology industries – are regarded as threats to democracy.
The group, the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, and Berlin-based Dalia Research, polled 177,870 people in 54 countries about their perceptions of democracy as a concept, its state in their home nations, and in the world in general.…
Checkpoint Asia
NATO Poll Finds Public Opinion in Western Countries Holds That US Is a Threat to Democracy
Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg Opinion
