{"id":68637,"date":"2017-08-06T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68637"},"modified":"2017-08-06T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:57:31","slug":"womp-this-country-was-named-the-greatest-threat-to-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/06\/womp-this-country-was-named-the-greatest-threat-to-world-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Womp! This Country Was Named The Greatest Threat To World Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Meredith Bennett-Smith<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

There\u2019s really no way to sugarcoat it: The rest of world believes that the United States is the country that poses the greatest threat to world peace, beating out all challengers by a wide margin.<\/p>\n

This is the conclusion of a\u00a0massive world opinion poll conducted by Win\/Gallup International<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and released at the close of 2013. The poll, which was first conducted in 1977,\u00a0asked over 66,000 thousand people across 65 countries<\/span><\/a>\u00a0this year a variety of questions about the world, including which country they would most like to call home, whether or not the world is becoming a generally better place and which country poses the greatest threat to world peace.<\/p>\n

The U.S.\u00a0was voted the biggest threat<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by far, garnering 24 percent of the vote. Pakistan was a very distant second with 8 percent, followed by China (6 percent) and Afghanistan (5 percent).<\/p>\n

Despite an unstable economic situation, our happiness index is extremely high all over the world except in Europe,\u201d Jean-Marc Leger, President of WIN\/Gallup International Association,\u00a0said in a statement.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Moreover people think that 2014 will be better than 2013. Optimism is back in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Meredith Bennett-Smith There\u2019s really no way to sugarcoat it: The rest of world believes that the United States is the country that poses the greatest threat to world peace, beating out all challengers by a wide margin. This is the conclusion of a\u00a0massive world opinion poll conducted by Win\/Gallup International\u00a0and released at the close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}