I ran an international, intranational company for over 20 years. I spent easily 70% of my life outside the USA, including Russia and East Germany before the wall came down, every country in Europe and did not miss very many in Asia Pacific. A multi million mile frequent flier.

Political agendas were never very far from most business dinner tables. And it always came up some where sometime when socializing with the non corporate types in those countries.

No doubt about political stances....both so called friends and adversaries, however, I can honestly say I never...EVER... got the sense of hatred for Americans as it it is often generalized about today. The average citizen anywhere, just like here in the good old USA are good people who don't hate anybody (except the fanatics of countries I don't have to list).

We are all entitled to our opinions and mine is,

the so called hatred for America is political agenda fodder (not just ours). It is media magnified to support and caress their polarized agendas...rarely real.....always isolated incident reporting extrapolated to pandemic proportions....i.e. a purported ham sandwich sighting becomes a multi table banquet!!!

There are very few countries I would feel unsafe in....they are on that same list I didn't have to list above).
The real problem is the politicians and the military (+ or -)

What do y'all think and it really does help if you have first hand experience (+ or -).

BTK