According to a survey by Wall Street Journal, Putin now counts in the eyes of Americans among the most unpopular personalities in recent history. A data far from being indifferent when it comes to taking sanctions against Russia at war, analyzes a columnist of the Washington Post.
Vladimir Putin’s image is deteriorating day by day in American opinion. A survey published by the Wall Street Journal Friday, March 11 shows that 90% of Americans now have an opinion “unfavorable” of the Russian president and 86% of them an opinion “very unfavorable”against only 4% who retain an image of him “favorable”. Figures to be compared to those of the previous week when 13% of Americans questioned still had a positive opinion of President Putin while 75% judged him negatively.
Analyzing these results, Aaron Blake, columnist at Washington Post, comment :
Less than ten years ago, half of Americans had a positive opinion of Russia. Even after Russian interference in the 2016 election was exposed, 22% of Americans – including 37% of Republican voters – said they had a favorable opinion of President Putin. But times have changed a lot.”
On the hit parade of hated figures
So much so that with this latest poll Putin has just joined the club of the most hated leaders in recent history, as revealed by the archives of the Roper Center at Cornell University, which specializes in opinion polls:
The Russian president now competes with Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-un, Fidel Castro and Ayatollah Khomeini. He’s not quite as hated as the first two, but he’s not far off.
On the hit parade of figures hated by the Americans, on the other hand, he is ahead of personalities such as the Syrian Bashar al-Assad or the former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who in 1999 became the first former -head of state to be tried by an international tribunal for war crimes – “a prospect that Putin himself faces”, points out the newspaper.
More interestingly, according to the columnist, Vladimir Putin appears much more unpopular today than Leonid Brezhnev was in 1982 after the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union – yet Brezhnev had been at the head of the Soviet Union during the worst moments of the Cold War.
It is not surprising that Vladimir Putin is suddenly very unpopular in the United States, adds Aaron Blake.
But when it comes to imposing sanctions on Russia, including measures that could lead to an increase in the price of gasoline, it can be important to know just how much it has become.
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