Don’t julez
A lot of countries care
Have you traveled???
Countries we call allies usually have people who genuinely like Americans,
Everyone who I met from the countries in the OP don’t hold Americans in high regard at all - they epitomize fukk your pay me.
It's not jeulzing. I have travelled, which is why I know what I'm talking about. There's multiple points to this so bear with me:
Other countries only care about what America and Americans can do for them and even then, care about which party can do what and who has done what to them, if they are even paying that much attention to their politics (how many people here can speak on UK, French, or Canadian politics to the same degree as Americans, let alone the average citizen?).
The fact we are using allies as proof is weird since they're allies only because they get along with America from a sociopolitical and geopolitical standpoint. Even those ones you call allies are only like that based on situations where an American did this or that for them, not some innate sense of being nice. Look at the history of each country and in countries where America has done that country dirty, especially if it can be tied to a political party, that will shape how those people will see those people see not only America but certain candidates.
In Nigeria especially, Obama and his administration are tied to Boko Haram and in general regime change and the imposition of the American will on the country in a form of soft imperialism with the backing of the CIA and so on. You can claim disinfo campaigns but that shyt works in America, imagine how much more it would work in places in Africa? Even people in America subscribe to this idea which shows how widespread the idea is. I would say disinfo and fake news plays a larger part in this, even more so with AI these days.
Consider this:
Since Friday, a video claiming that the Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, declared a policy to stop Nigerians from emig...
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This harkens back to another point I made, about how there are plenty of Nigerians who dislike emigration from their country by Nigerians and see Trump as a means of fixing this. Not because he likes them but because his goals align with theirs.
My feed was blowing up with this video for weeks on end when it dropped. It was fake but it played with the idea some were pushing and even more, was part of a concerted campaign (backed by American alt-right 4cac types) to promote Trump and such to Africa as a whole. During the election, a new one came out each week. If these can convince someone living in the US, it can definitely convince someone living in a whole other country who only thinks about the US whenever they watch the news.
I'll add that fake news, AI and all that, is a new and growing issue over here so it's no surprise. The media actually comments on this shyt readily. Look at the bottom of that page and you'll see what is going on. The crazy part is, much of that is coming from the west.
In short, there are so many reasons why someone would be fooled into viewing Trump positively.
