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It turns out Pew found the opposite in their 2016 poll of global opinion of the United States. Favorability of the U.S. increased from 50% favorable to 57% in Germany from 2015 - 2016, while unfavorable views declined from 42% to 38%.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/06/28/americas-international-i...

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I think we'll find the current US election won't help the opinion polls for 2016-2017 :)

Also, I'm not really up on this kind of thing, but 57% seems pretty low for the land of the free?

Great, then everything must be fine! Continue arming Jihadists and keep creating a mess in the Middle East so we receive more of these fine people! It will only fasten the process I described before.

I hereby nominate "Europe blaming the US for the state of the Middle East" as the new "pot calling the kettle black".

At least they have the "they tried to conquer us first" excuse.

Maybe you should inform yourself better. Germany refused to help their so called "ally" 2003 in the Iraq war, Germany refused to help their "ally" in the Libyan war, Germany refused to support any side during the Syrian civil war. Germany is the main reason that sanctions against Russia during the Ukraine conflict were weakened to the point of irrelevance (the US actually wanted a full blockade - LOL) as the government understands that it's really the US that caused this conflict.

The only US war that Germany viewed as legitimate and thus supported was the Afghanistan war of 2001.

It was more a reference to the whole "History of the Middle East, 1870-1960" thing, wherein Europe got its empire building thing on, redrew national boundaries, set up new governments, and generally made a hash of things before deciding it wasn't fun anymore and abruptly exiting the region, leading to the power vacuum the US stepped into in the 1950s.

Which doesn't change the fact that the US had no business invading Iraq in 2003 and probably should have stayed out of Afghanistan as well, but pretending Europe -- Germany near the top of the list -- had no role in creating the situation there is silly.

I really don't care about stuff that happened so long ago as it most people that are fighting in todays conflicts weren't even born back then and refugees coming to Europe don't do this because of something that happened prior to 1960.

That's like some Arabs retarded claim that every evil and barbaric thing they do today is justified because of the Crusades! (even though in reality the Crusades were a defensive move against the Arab invasions and thus absolutely justified but that's a different topic)

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