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favourable), Hungary (from 45% to 25%) and Italy (from 38% to 14%). In spite of Russian efforts at fostering disinformation and ties to extremist parties, the country enjoys little support from within western electorates.
Russia's real influence lies outside of the West, where 75% of respondents in South Asia, 68% in Francophone Africa, and 62% in Southeast Asia view the country positively.
The study went on to divide the world up into two camps by plotting countries with positive sentiment towards the US on the horizontal axis, according to over 100 surveys, against those that have favourable views of Russia and China on the vertical.
Blue connecting lines show countries that have a minimum 15pp more preference for the US over Russia and China. Purple lines show countries with a minimum 15pp preference for Russia and China over the US.
America’s bloc is much larger and contains a total of 64 countries in total compared to only 15 in the Sino-Russian camp. The US block also contains
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