Eighty years after the Liberation, will the transatlantic link survive the second term of Donald Trump? A survey carried out by IFOP reveals that if for 27 %of French people, the United States remains an allied country, it is perceived as an enemy by an almost identical proportion of the population (26 %), the others believing that the United States is a neutral country (34 %) or not pronouncing (13 %). It is among LFI sympathizers that we meet the most distrust of Washington: a third considers the United States as an enemy, twice as much as among environmental sympathizers or RN (16 %).
At least the uncle Sam still seems to benefit from the benefit of the doubt of the doubt. In Canada, these doubts seem to have soared, under the combined effect of Donald Trump’s desire to annex the country and the trade war triggered to achieve this: 43 % of Canadians today consider the United States as an enemy country, against 17 % who believe that it is still an ally, and 26 % of a neutral country.
The wish of an independent defense
If the American star pales in France, the reverse is not necessarily true. A majority of Americans still consider France as an ally (54 %, a third as a neutral country (34 %), and only 2 %as an enemy country – the others do not pronounce.
Gaullian heritage? The French are also twice as many as the Americans (58 % against 28 %) wishing a European defense completely independent of that of the United States. A significant proportion of our compatriots (44 and 42 %) also believes that France should oppose militarily in the United States, if the latter were trying to annex Canada or Greenland. On the other hand, they would be less inclined (34 %) to defend the Panama canal.
IFOP survey carried out for the NYC.EU site, carried out online from April 8 to 10 with a representative sample of 1,225 Americans and 1,000 French people aged 18 and over.
