Passers-by during a snowfall in Times Square, New YorkWASHINGTON, Feb 8 Russia entered the top three countries that Americans consider hostile — 49% of participants in a survey conducted by Politico with Morning Consult consider Russia an enemy. As follows from its data, 3% of respondents consider Russia an ally, another 10% called it «friendly, but not an ally «, and 24% consider the Russian Federation «unfriendly, but not an enemy.» Americans reacted most negatively to the DPRK: 64% of respondents called North Korea an «enemy» of the United States. Iran was called an «enemy» by 51% of respondents, and China and Iraq — by 44% of Americans each. More than half of respondents believe that the US Congress should introduce preventive «severe sanctions» against Russia «to prevent an attack on Ukraine»: 34% support such sanctions unequivocally, another 29% support to some extent. 16% were against such sanctions. The survey was conducted on February 5-6, 2022, 2005 people took part in it, the error is 2%. Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia in borders of Ukraine and threaten with new sensitive sanctions. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and does not intend to attack anyone, and claims of «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders.
Putin spoke about the response of the US and NATO on security guarantees
