President Trumps former Russia adviser Fiona Hill said Tuesday that the U.S. is “increasingly” seen as an “object of pity” by other countries.
“We are increasingly seen as an object of pity including by our allies because they are so shocked about what’s happening internally, how we’re eating ourselves alive with our divisions,” she said.
“We’re the ones who are creating all this,” she added. “It’s not the Russians or the Chinese or anyone else. We are doing this to ourselves.”
She cited that foreign countries are forming this opinion based on the “bungled handling of COVID, on top of race relations and on top of our political polarization and the spectacles that we’re presenting to the outside world is what’s really pushing all of this.”
Pew Research shows that across the 13 countries surveyed, a median of 84 percent of adults say the US has done a poor job, including 53 percent who say it has done a very bad job. The countries are Canada, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the UK, Sweden, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Australia and Japan.
