Recently the Strategic Culture Foundation published the map below that shows whether average people across Europe have a positive, negative, or neutral view on Russia as a whole. Let’s take a look at this map and try to make an objective analysis of this data together. The image it shows is very telling.

What creates this divided map?

Looking at the map we can see a few key trends. Firstly, and not surprisingly, Russia only has more approval than disapproval in Eastern Orthodox Christian countries and Hungary. Despite many generations of secular politics in Europe, religion still plays a very strong role in how we perceive the world and our neighboring countries. The “3rd Rome” will always have a powerful role in the Orthodox World as its bastion. So long as the people in these nations never truely and finally lose their faith.

Secondly, the Hungarian position is very telling. Hungary is not an Orthodox nation but the views on politics expressed by Presidents Orban and Putin are at times very similar. Both of these presidents are very popular among their people who support their similar stances. We could say that Russia and Hungary are ideological “cousins” of a sort.

Furthermore, with the rise of Orban, not all information presented to the Hungarian people is filtered by the EU status quo, meaning they have more freedom to look at the positives and negatives in Russia, than in many completely globalist corners of the economic alliance. You will find nothing positive about Russia in the British, French or German media, thus we should not be surprised that their populations mimic the only possible world views presented to them.

Healthy skepticism of polling is critical

The question posed to respondents was a raw “positive, negative or I don’t know” when it comes to Russia as a whole. This is very vague and has nothing to do with demanding action from the public. Disliking something in an abstract sense is easy, but would this correspond to actual public support against Russia directly?

If we look at another map we can contrast this grim picture above with one that can provide hope for avoiding WWIII.

From this map we can see that in Central and Western Europe where Russophobia seems to be highest only very few people would be willing to fight for their country. That is to say very vew would be onboard to fight against the fake Russian threat that has been pumped into their televisions and smart phones for decades. Trying to “rally the troops” against Russia is not possible in today’s vile EU.

Passive racist attitudes can certainly cause problems. But ultimately, even if Russia is disliked in the West it seems like fewer and few people feel that action should be taken against it. Very few willing to put their chips down on war with Russia.

If we take a look at this survey from way back in January 2024 we can see that support for fighting against Russia is nowhere near the amount of vague “disaproval” for the nation. Italy is in the true heart of the West and yet seems to have very little interest in hurting Moscow. We must also note that this is ‘support’ for the war against Russia and not a poll about wanting to join the war. Even vague help for Kiev is not a particularly popular concept in a seemingly Russophobic Europe.

One poll never tells the full story

As we can see, we should not go bonkers over one particularly ugly map based on polling. Yes, the West, even the masses, have the same Russophobic tendencies now that they have had for the last thousand years. There is nothing new under the Sun. But when it comes to taking action against Russia, thankfully we can see that a solid majority in the EU does not want to start WWIII. We cannot force people to like each other but we should force them to avoid a potentially nuclear war at all costs.

Disliking someone and wanting to kill them – are two completely different things. All of us live and work with some people we don’t particularly approve of. Yet, we can live happy lives ignoring or avoiding these awful people. Thankfully, average Europeans seem to agree with this adult methodology when it comes to Russia. The only problem is that the globalists reigning over them do not.

But these maps are more proof that Russia still needs to take action to improve its approval ratings. We must continue our quest to reduce Russophobia across the world to single digit numbers of bizarre basement dwellers.