Most widely hated countries on earth

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Google lead me to several lists and they're all basically the same:
1.Russia
2.PRC
3.USA
4.Saudi Arabia
5.N.Korea
6.Pakistan
7.Israel
8.Iraq
0.Iran
10.Germany

What’s the logic behind hating Iraq?

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Google lead me to several lists and they're all basically the same:
1.Russia
2.PRC
3.USA
4.Saudi Arabia
5.N.Korea
6.Pakistan
7.Israel
8.Iraq
0.Iran
10.Germany

What’s the logic behind hating Iraq?

1.dumb people confuse it with Iran?
2.Some surrounding countries have long standing beef with them and for good reason
3.a lot of ISIS are former Saddam pals

I mean, I think when people say they “hate a country”, they mean they hate the government/politics of the country, not the country itself. The government/politics of Iraq has absolutely no resemblance to the government and politics pre-2003, so I don’t know why anyone who hate them based on anything to do with Saddam.

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I don't think that anyone hates Saudi Arabia.

what

That so obviously screams "*I* don't hate them" even more loudly than such claims normally do.

Yeah, and importantly, a lot of Saudis hate Saudi Arabia, hence the violent and widespread repression of any protest or more muted criticism and the increasingly large Saudi diaspora (many of them political exiles, many of them young women fleeing their families, many others simply recognizing that there’s nothing good for them there).

Note that the Saudi government punishes people by preventing them from leaving. They tried to do this in the early 90s with Osama bin Laden by taking his passport but a sympathetic prince helped smuggle him out after which he went to Pakistan, then Sudan for several years (during which time the Saudis revoked his citizenship altogether) before Sudan, under pressure from the US and Saudi governments, forced him to leave in 1996, after which he finally relocated to Afghanistan and bought protection from the Taliban. Bin Laden, for his part, increasingly referred to the Kingdom as “the Arabian Peninsula” or “the Land of the Holy Places” which had been corrupted by sleazy US-supported autocrats (which, show me the lie).

Basically almost everyone has a reason to hate Saudi Arabia, lol.

I hate Saudi Arabia’s social policies, but have a relatively high opinion of their economic policies. Similar to how I view the PRC.