he vast majority of the countries polled chose the US as their preferred defence partner while Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey were the only four NATO nations to prefer Russia over the US.

James Davis, dean of the school of economics and science at Switzerland's St. Gallen University, interpreted the results for Bloomberg last week as showing a religious divide between Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism.

Slovenia, majority Catholic, is an exception, as was Romania, a mainly Orthodox Christian nation that picked the US.

WIN/Gallup International polled about 1,000 people in each of 66 countries around the world between October and December 2016.