{"id":60283,"date":"2025-07-21T17:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60283"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:28:38","slug":"ridiculous-more-spaniards-see-the-usa-as-the-greatest-threat-than-russia-or-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/21\/ridiculous-more-spaniards-see-the-usa-as-the-greatest-threat-than-russia-or-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous: More Spaniards see the USA as the greatest threat than Russia or Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda is causing a curious numbing effect among many Spaniards regarding their perception of our external threats.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/12\/russias-support-for-separatism-in-spain-and-the-support-of-spanish-separatists-for-russia\/\">Russia's support for separatism in Spain and the support of Spanish separatists for Russia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/10\/this-is-how-putins-russia-has-been-supporting-the-anti-spanish-black-legend\/\">This is how Putin's Russia has been supporting the anti-Spanish black legend<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On July 8, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2025\/07\/08\/people-in-many-countries-consider-the-u-s-an-important-ally-others-see-it-as-a-top-threat\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Pew Research Center published the results of a survey<\/a> that revealed some interesting data about Spain. According to the survey, <strong>31% of Spaniards surveyed identified the United States as the greatest threat to Spain<\/strong>, making it the most frequently cited country with that rating. It should be noted that <strong>Spain is the only European country in NATO and the European Union where this occurs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, <strong>in the Atlantic Alliance, only one other country perceives the US as the greatest threat: Canada<\/strong>. 59% of Canadians surveyed said so, something that may be attributed to Donald Trump's messages advocating the annexation of that country to the United States. For the Kremlin, this is a great success: <strong>in Spain, Russia is the second most frequently identified country as the greatest threat, with 26%<\/strong>, a percentage that drops to 11% in Canada, behind communist China, which obtains 17%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The third country identified as the greatest threat by Spaniards is Morocco, with 18%<\/strong>, far behind the United States. This is truly ridiculous, since the United States is an ally of Spain, while <strong>Morocco is a country that covets territories that are part of Spain<\/strong>, such as the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, and other Spanish strongholds in North Africa. Likewise, <strong>Communist China is perceived as the greatest threat by only 4% of Spaniards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Spain's surreal results can be explained by <strong>the unhealthy hostility toward the US on the part of much of the left and far-left<\/strong>, but also on the part of much of the far-right and the Muslim population. Added to this are Trump's threats of tariffs, which have done nothing to improve the US's image in Spain. <strong>Between them, they have managed to make a democratic country and ally of Spain like the US be perceived as worse than a dictatorship like Russia<\/strong>, which has threatened to use nuclear weapons against NATO, of which Spain is a member.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, of all the European countries surveyed, <strong>Poland is the one that most perceives Russia as a threat: 81%<\/strong> of respondents said so. Interestingly, <strong>Ukraine<\/strong> is the second most perceived country as a threat by Poles, but this is a very small percentage: 6%, which can be explained by the anti-Ukrainian propaganda of the Polish far right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia is also perceived as the greatest threat in Sweden (77%), Germany (59%), the Netherlands (57%)<\/strong>, France (50%), the United Kingdom (49%), Hungary (33%), and Italy (32%). Significantly, <strong>for US respondents, the greatest threat is communist China (42%)<\/strong>, with Russia in second place at just 25%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda is causing a curious numbing effect among many Spaniards regarding their perception of our external threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[12305,17125,10370,10731,11462,10431],"class_list":["post-60283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-morocco","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-spain","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}