Posted on 05/27/2022 6:32:18 AM PDT by blam
On March 8, President Joe Biden declared, in a speech announcing a ban on imports of Russian oil and gas, that these and other actions taken by the United States government “to inflict further pain on [Russia President Vladimir Putin]” would “cost us as well, in the United States.”
Since then, the US government’s economic sanctions on Russia – as well as spending, military training, intelligence sharing, and weapons transfers to attack the Russian military – have increased as the economic conditions in America have declined.
Some of that economic decline is a result of the actions against Russia, as Biden suggested would be the case. Other parts of the decline have other causes. New polling results from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicate that Americans are increasingly wary of incurring economic costs in America due to efforts to inflict pain on Putin or, as the poll puts it, “sanctioning Russia.”
In fact, despite the nonstop hate Russia propaganda in the big money media, the polling indicates the majority of Americans are now opposed to harming the American economy to advance the anti-Russia crusade that Biden and most US Congress members have been pushing.
Support among polled individual for “sanctioning Russia as effectively as possible, even if it damages the US economy” dropped from 55 percent on March 22 to 51 percent on April 22 to 45 percent on May 22.
Meanwhile, support for the contrary position of “limiting damage to the US economy, even if it means sanctions on Russia are less effective” rose each month from 42 percent to 45 percent to 51 percent.
Americans seem to be increasingly viewing fighting Russia as not worth the cost Biden mentioned in his March 8 speech.
“We’re killing ourselves,” said Jeanette Ellis-Carter, a retired accountant who lives with her husband in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“We can help other people, but in helping other people, we have to know how to help ourselves. And we’re not doing that.”
Will many politicians in Washington, DC soon come around as well?
A vast majority of Americans don’t think this. They’re either politically blind (leftists), politically apathetic, or just plain stupid. It is those people who allow the DEMs to retain power.
Always people weary of war, even when THEY are not doing the fighting, and sometimes to their own long term detriment.
There is little damage to Russia.
In fact, Russian oil/gas exports (which accounts for 60% of export revenue) is nearly unchanged in volume but at a much higher price.
The higher oil prices are helping Russia pay for the war.
The Jefferson Embargo caused OUR farmers to starve to death.
So we are going to see a switch from the idiocy of blaming economic problems on Putin to the idiocy of blaming the sanctions against Putin?
The correct answer is that the responsibility for coming economic disaster goes to the demented politicians of last details, and specifically The Demented One...
So how's that strategy working?
Will many politicians in Washington, DC soon come around as well?
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Briefly. But only for the elections.
Most Americans don’t care.
The apathy is great in this country.
Sending $40 billion to a country most of us couldn’t find on a map, when gas prices have risen 92% under Biden, might also anger Americans.
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Neocons don’t care how much harm they cause the American people, as long as it hurts Russia just a little.
a little bigger please. LOL.
Should worry more about Brandon causing economic damage in America.
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