To make it clear, in Europe and the middle east, I support Russia since I don't agree with what the US / NATO is doing there, examples: Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and certainly Ukraine as well as the encirclement of Russia by Nato.
This American article expresses what I'm talking about regarding Europe and Russia, I totally agree with it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/putin-west-war_b_9991162.html
In the Asia Pacific region, I support USA since the big threat here is an imperialistic, expansionist China and that is definitely the big threat in Asia, and those of us that live in Asia are very clear about that. USA is the only power that can contain the chinese and we support that. Vietnamese also share this position (as well as many others). I should also say that USAs influence in East Asia has being rather benign since the end of the Vietnam war, they have nor started any war or created any major issues. We can live with that around here. Our big issue here is China.
I'm not anti American or anti anybody per se, neither I'm pro anybody per se, I oppose if I don't like something, I support if I like something. I believe that everybody has an agenda, some have a big agenda, some have an small agenda, but all have one. I don't like how Russia didn't give much support to Armenia during the conflict with Azerbaijan even that they are allies. I don't believe that any country is fully evil or fully a saint.
I believe that a "Deep state" / "Shadow government" has the real power in USA and is behind much if not all the American foreign policy actions to maintain hegemony and prevent the raising of a competing power (that has been the standard foreign policy for the last few decades). There is a growing movement of people in America that also believes that.
I actually call that "Deep state", a "financial oligarchy", money has taken control of the system, the politicians and the government and we know who it is that has / controls the money, right? Certain individuals control the Federal Reserve and the Banks and the mainstream media and that's the narrative that we always see and that's what brainwashes and controls people all over the world. Many people in America talk about the 1%, but the real core of the 1% is that financial oligarchy that I mentioned.
I get my news (the ones that I believe / trust most) from the so called "alternative media", but I don't follow anything / anybody per se, I have my own opinions and make my own analysis, I'm not a sheep that follows anybody. I very much dislike the way most of the alternative media and many of their writers / analysts follow a line that USA is evil and therefore, anybody that opposes USA is a saint.
Those writers (like Pepe Escobar for example or antiwar.com, etc) tend to always portrait China as some kind of benevolent / saint power just because they oppose USA and called what USA is doing in the SCS a provocation and look the other way / stay silent to what China is doing there. I believe they are wrong, dead wrong, China is a big threat, if they were to have the power that USA have, they would be even worse. I spent a lot of years in USA and I spend plenty of time in China also. I would choose to stay in USA rather than China any day. The alternative media / movement are very biased in their support of China.
Recently I started to see articles in the alternative media and in RT attacking Vietnam and India because "they are allying with USA against China and Russia". That's a total distortion of the reality. It reminds me of the distortions in the mainstream media. In this part of the world, we are very clear about what's going here in the same way that you understand what's going on in Europe.
So, that's my position and how I think, it may seem strange or awkward to others, but that's what it is and I'm very clear about it. What you call the "US meddling their affairs" is seen a bit different in this part of the world, here we mind "China meddling in our affairs". We are waiting for the American cavalry to come to the SCS. If you were to live here, you'd have a better understanding of this.
@gambit We had a bit of a misunderstanding in the past, this explains better where I'm coming from. Hope you understand.