Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Russian bombers in Venezuela infuriate Washington" video.

It's not exactly a sign of strength either that Russia has to befriend these international outcasts in order to have friends.
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@jackspecht3418 Unfortunately for Russia, China doesn't think being BFFs is an exclusive thing. Besides, China is happy to use Russia's economic predicament to its advantage, striking deals that aren't exactly win-win. Copying Russian military tech is also a favourite pastime of theirs. Let's hear about you unfake poll results that put Russia in the "highly regarded" category. No need to reply if you're done trolling.
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@jackspecht3418 Highly regarded my foot. Latin America is almost unanimously dismissive of Venezuela's current regime. What would you expect -- they are saddled with millions of Venezuelan refugees while having their own domestic social woes to contend with. Russia, similarly, has verifiably suffered from a poor global image for a number of years, each year being worse than the previous one. You're talking about a very, very narrow perspective.
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@jackspecht3418 Sorry, I'm not interested in your op-ed on US foreign policy. I took issue with your claim that Russia and its troubled allies are highly regarded. Russia has an image problem that's unrelated to any East-West divide -- which is an obsolete concept anyway. If there's a divide, it's Russia-and-its-few-remaining-allies vs. the rest of the world. And the rest isn't all that united, except in its opposition to Russia and its equally isolated allies. But back to Russia's image problem. According to the most authoritative pollsters, Pew Research, there's not a single continent where Russia is regarded more favourably than unfavourably, the global approval rate being a sorry 34%. Just for reference purposes, the corresponding figure for USA is 50%. An interesting side note is that while Putin isn't exactly popular worldwide (30%), Trump does even worse (27%). Incidentally, us Europeans are Trump's keenest critics, even more so than Russians. So much for Western unity.
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