Posted on 08/04/2023 12:36:48 PM PDT by Mariner
Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine.
Overall, 55% say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine vs. 45% who say Congress should authorize such funding. And 51% say that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine while 48% say it should do more. A poll conducted in the early days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022 found 62% who felt the US should have been doing more.
Partisan divisions have widened since that poll, too, with most Democrats and Republicans now on opposing sides of questions on the US role in Ukraine.
A majority, but not all (68%) of those who say the US should do more to support Ukraine favor additional funding, as do 23% of those who say the US has already done enough.
When asked specifically about types of assistance the US could provide to Ukraine, there is broader support for help with intelligence gathering (63%) and military training (53%) than for providing weapons (43%), alongside very slim backing for US military forces to participate in combat operations (17%).
Republicans broadly say that Congress should not authorize new funding (71%) and that the US has done enough to assist Ukraine (59%). Among Democrats, most say the opposite, 62% favor additional funding and 61% say that the US should do more.
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CNN Poll: Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russia ...
Preferring to let Russia rearm and rebuild so they can send their kids to defend Europe when the Russians launch their next invasion.
Take a hint from the Big Guy...10% of the Ukraine funding goes to close the US southern border with Mexico
Ukraine has been buying drones from Turkey since 2019, and have an agreement to co-produce more drones and warships. That was before Biden was in office and started sending them billions of dollars and military equipment, not requiring that one penny be accounted for on the other end. Why are we sending money to Ukraine so it can be used to pay government employees, support government programs, and hold up their pension system, especially when people here are struggling? I've got a big problem with that. Frankly, I don't give two $hits about either country, because they are both corrupt, and helped make politicians on both sides of the aisle wealthy. Let's stop pissing our future away.
Why would CNN publish this poll, especially if it’s true? (Which is always subject to question on CNN.)
Doesn’t matter what Americans think. Joe has a contractual obligation to obey what his handlers tell him to do, plus he gets 10%.
Yeah...covert all those redundant ventilator factories to making drones.
Nope. What we want doesn’t matter. It is the biggest Rat money laundering op in history and the GOPe is getting their beaks wet too
Well, the natural corollary is that Russia and China have been fighting proxy wars against the US since the Korean War.
I find it interesting that you — and several who subscribe to your position — routinely trot out the argument that what happens in Europe is not any of our business, and should be of no concern to us. That echoes EXACTLY what the isolationists were championing back in the 1930s and early 1940s. It was a naive position back then, and is absolutely foolish today; as we are in the 21st century now and there is no possibility at all for isolationism today, as the world is too interconnected economically; we are ALL dependent to one degree or another with the rest of the world; so that what happens anywhere there is sufficient commerce or trade affects us as a capitalist country.
That's Europe's problem, not ours. We did our bit for world peace, been fighting proxy wars with Russia and China since the Korean War. No good has come from any of it, except that certain people, especially politicians have gotten rich, and helped their donors get rich as well on the unaccounted for money and military equipment expended all these years. The old saying "War is good for the U.S. economy" might have meant something when our military was allowed to wage war the way it should be, so that victories could be achieved. Today's wars are never-ending, run by politicians and military lawyers like Ron DeSantis, who are sent in to advise our troops what they can and can't do on the battlefield, so we don't offend anyone. What a piss-poor way to fight wars.
With no oversight or assurance about the where the money and weapons are (no audits...thank you, communist senate (/s))...no more aid, no way, no how should be the position of all patriotic Americans. Enough collaborating with Brandon Crime Family cover-up
As if Americans matter to the ruling elite in America.
You confuse wishing for something and the experience and savvy some ppl have that allows them to fully understand the geopolitical events driven by Neocons. You lack this. We have this. Try harder.
“If Zelensky had been another Trump and Putin had been allied with Biden and his fellow leftist nations, the Ukraine would be gone by now, and nobody would care about its sovereignty.”
Interesting comment. You are saying that a Trump, if he were president of Ukraine, would either have surrendered his country entirely or let it be conquered; either of which would have erased his country. That is not a very flattering illustration of Trump. But, perhaps that was your intent.
“Could we not mass manufacture explosive drones of all kinds here in the US...”
No the USA can’t. The industrial base has been outsourced and is dependent on imports from countries like China.
here is the Raytheon CEO saying tha company cannot decouple form china since they have thousands of subcontractors supplying components.
Yes, USA military production depends on China.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/
It isn't any of our business. Fighting proxy wars to prevent the spread of communism, ended up with its being instilled in this country without a shot being fired. It came from within, not from overseas. The European Union and WEF are nothing more than a globalist group of snobs who want our money, and our souls. Waging another proxy war with Russia via Ukraine is what they wanted, and they got it.
Is it our business that Germany continued to rely on Russia for its oil these past 34 years since the Berlin Wall fell? Trump tried to warn them about their dependence, and they laughed at him.
I was born in 1947, so I missed WWII. I have spent my adult life studying various periods of history, as well as the wars we were involved in. I had two uncles who served overseas during the war, a brother who served in Vietnam in 1966-67, and although he had always wanted to be a soldier, saw first hand what a joke that war was. I also had a great-uncle who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in WWI, who was killed in France two months before the Armistice. With all your jibber-jabber, you still didn't explain what national security interest there is for the U.S. in Ukraine.
Sure! After the conquest of Europe and all the resources and manpower Russia would gain, guess who is next on the list? Better to wait until there is no choice, and then send your kids to die on the home front, right?
Isolationism brought WWI and WWII. To have peace prepare for war, not something isolationist think about, because once they get their way, they go right for the unilateral disarmament route.
You go to war with what you have, not with what you wish you had. With Isolationism you have no military, no capabilities, and are easy pickings.
The world is not a bunch of separate countries any longer - where does you medicine come from? Where does a lot of the food in the US come from? Its all interconnected.
And thinking we could just do and make all that stuff ourselves over night, so to speak, is just not possible. There are not enough people in the US with the necessary skills now, where do you think you would find them to in the future to build out the US economy?
None for the hoi polloi like us.
An old jealous commie.
Anyone with a sense of common decency should be Sickened by the utter waste of Ukrainian lives.
It is a fools errand and we are footing the bill.
No shame in the neocon game.
Get yourself a cup of tears while they’re flowin’
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