For all the (understandable) attention that Germany and India receive in American foreign policy circles, public knowledge about their leaders is pretty limited. I’ll confess I’m surprised about how high the “Never heard of” is for Modi, but I guess I operate in a pretty non-representative bubble. And even Netanyahu, who has been around for a long time and operates deeply and visibly in US politics, is unknown to a quarter of Americans. From a 2023 Pew survey:
Paul Staniland 