A shocking poll of German citizens: Trump is a bigger threat to world peace than Putin

More than 90 percent of Germans want better relations with Russia, while more than three quarters think that US President Donald Trump presents a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin, revealed a new poll

Painting Russia as a Negro and Threat The West is a rhetoric of the mainstream media and several Western countries for some time.

A poll conducted by the Forsa Institute on behalf of Wiese Consult showed a significant difference between the main story in the media and the general public's thinking.

It was found that 83 percent of Germans say they are not afraid of Russia, while half of all respondents accuse US policy of creating a tense relationship between Russia and the West.

Only a quarter of Germans believe that Russia is guilty of the conflict. More than three-quarters of respondents (79 percent) said they believe US President Donald Trump is a bigger threat to world peace than his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

While Washington is imposing moves to sanctions Russia under various pretexts, more than half of German respondents (55 percent) opposed solid anti-Russian sanctions.

Germany has already seen a significant negative economic effect of earlier illegal sanctions against Moscow. Although in 2017, German exports to Russia increased compared to 2016 - in the amount of EUR 25.8 billion (31.8 billion dollars) - a small figure for exports in 2012, when it amounted to more than 38 billion euro.

The latest round of US sanctions includes restrictions on some major Russian energy companies, including En + and EuroSibEnergo, as well as state-owned Rosoboronexport, which controls most Russian arms exports.

A total of 14 subjects and 24 Russians were subjected to the latest sanctions, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described as "an economic attack".

According to Peskov, criminal measures against Russia are trying to "drive Russian corporations from international markets".

The German-Russian Chamber of Commerce said it was difficult to estimate how much damage would be caused by the latest US sanctions.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the German finance minister will encourage his country to be freed of a new round of anti-Russian sanctions.

The German minister agreed with Angela Merkel to soften the hard-line attitude towards Moscow, which was reflected in a recent survey, in which 94 percent of respondents considered it important that Germany and Russia had good relations.

• 25 Apr, 2018
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