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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Thank you for sharing your family history. He died even later than my Great-Uncle, so his death is even more poignant. Only four days before the Armistice took effect. Do you know where he is buried?
I never knew much about my great-uncle until I traveled to Canada after my mother passed in 1990, to do research into my family history. My mother was born in Canada. She always told me he was buried in Flanders Field. I knew it had to be in one of the countries that fought in WWI, but it wasn't until my first visit to the village she was supposed to have been born (Canadian officials were never able to locate a record of her birth), I came across a WWI monument on the village green. My great-uncle's name was on it along with others from the area. While I was looking over the monument, a gentleman who lived across the street from the green came over and started talking to me. I told him I'd found my great-uncle's name on the monument, and he told me to write the Military Archives in Ottawa to get his records. The Archives sent me everything they had, even his burial site, which is Terlincthun British Military Cemetery in Wimille, France. For a small amount, they took a photo of his headstone for me. I have two pictures of him. One as a civilian. The other, he is in uniform, sitting bareback on a horse which I assume belonged to the military.
My great-grandmother was still alive in Canada when he passed, but the records show that his personal effects, awards, etc. were sent to his mother's sister for some reason, so all that stuff was lost over the years. I never knew any of my grandparents on either side, never even realized until I went to Canada, that my great-grandmother was still alive when my grandmother passed in 1946. I managed to locate the funeral parlor my grandmother was buried from, and the records they dug out showed her mother (my great-grandmother) paid the expenses. My grand-mother is buried in the same cemetery as her great-grandmother (my 2nd great-grandmother). I managed to find the cemetery to get pictures. Have never been able to locate my Canadian great-grandmother's grave, or my Canadian grandfather's date of death or burial site...nor a great-aunt...the sister of the fallen soldier, who was a widow living in Covington, Ky. She may have remarried, and that's why I've never been able to find her. I found where her husband was buried, and there was a double plot, but she was never buried in it. Working on my family tree, it's been easier to make connections from years gone by, than it has been to make those closer in generations.
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Gotta love “Free” Republic!
When polls don’t say what we want: THE POLLS ARE WRONG!
When polls do say what some want: THIS PROVES WHAT I WANT TO SAY!
*both are used extensively by the Putinist fan club.
...yup, too bad that it’s the voting database that actually casts the votes and NOT the voters, otherwise it might actually matter.
Amoung the effects were love letters from a girl in town.
My Grandma said “that is why he was attending the Church of the Brethern”.
I have no idea what happened to those letters.
As to geneaology “ I used to be White til I found I was’t.”
But I still pass.
What a rich tapestry all our family histories present.
I'm a mongrel too, and proud of it. Reportedly had a "negress" in the family according to Ancestry.com records. My 2nd great-grandmother was supposed to have been half-Mohawk. Cousins in Canada verified it, and that she was the neighborhood midwife, yet no DNA for either showed up, so who knows. I do know that when my mother told me we had no relatives, she was wrong, but that's only because that was what she had been told as a little girl.
good that even CNN viewers are done with the proxy war
Thank you! Nice of you to simply be nice. It says a lot about your character. That’s a rare quality these days.
Nice try. Your posts are subject to reply.
I don’t think Putin has the nerve. Do you? We should take the risk and roll the dice. We would clobber them in any event. And China would back the f*ck down too.
But we are not engaged. We are doing a circle-jerk pretending to be engaged. Go big or go home. Time for Russia to suffer massively for this and embrace the suck that is real war. Mine/block Russias ports (3?), bomb their rail lines, sabotage their food supply. Make sure there there is plenty of collateral damage with every attack on Russian soil. Etc etc.
But, I’ll tell you: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, and Poland are damn glad they are part of NATO. Because the Russian bear is hungry, and forever needs feeding.===
But for Russia NATO in those countries mean insecurity. And insecurity will bring the war closer. SO joining to NATO you just bring the war closer.
If you trample on someone security then you bring the war closer.
Time for Russia to suffer massively for this and embrace the suck that is real war. Mine/block Russias ports (3?), bomb their rail lines, sabotage their food supply. Make sure there there is plenty of collateral damage with every attack on Russian soil. Etc etc.==
Then Russia will use nukes. You really want such escalation?
Russia will not lose this just because she will turn to nuclear if she will be losing.
Good. Lets be friends. 💗💙💚💛
“You pushed aside any thought of peace for the Neocon bloodlust that has now exploded in your face.”
Nice try, kid. Russia started this war. Any bloodlust rests with Russia, and its supporters (including those here on FR).
“I told you so and here we are with a shattered Ukraine minus 500,000 young men.”
In essence you told me you support Russia’s unwarranted invasion of the smaller and weaker Ukraine, and all the attendant death and carnage thereby.
It’s kind of like throwing a torch into a house, even if the original intent was just to scare the inhabitants: The one who threw the torch is responsible for all resulting injury and damage. The “I didn’t mean to!” excuse is not going to fly.
“Trust me, I won’t let you forget.”
Game on, kid. And, believe me: I’ll run you to ground whenever you make stupid or fraudulent or otherwise reckless comments.
So, keep it classy, kid.
Then we will as well. No more giving in to Russian nuclear blackmail. F*ck them. Put in or shut up. They won’t do it. Putin will chicken out.
Apparently we have some bill or law that stipulates Israel get aid forever. And someone was setting it up for Ukraine.
I will try to find that again. A senator...I went to his Facebook page and left a comment about it.
Just a few days ago I think I saw it had been approved.
So what I think will happen is they will say they stopped aid but in reality we will be funding Ukraine for a long long time.
Maybe you geniuses should look up “an Act of War”!
“We will pull out to go to war in Niger or to invade Mexico. Or both.”
First off; who exactly is this “we?” You’ve been badmouthing the United States and lifting up Russia for many months; so, the question must be asked: With whom do you identify as “we?” Russia? The US? Or some other country?
And, that’s a pretty definitive “WE WILL;” and it is without equivocation. So, pray, give us your timeline as to when these hostilities will ensue. You are definite as to the fact; so you should have some certainty as to the “when.”
And, as far as Mexico, if you are claiming the “we” is the United States, please give us the bill number and citation, and the co-sponsors, if any. Because I’ve tried to find it in the Congressional Record, and the closest thing I could find was an introductory bill that would “...partner with Mexico and Canada to combat fentanyl trafficking through institution building, the dismantling of cartels, and seizures of fentanyl in Mexico, Canada, and intrastate transit zones,” coordinating with the Department of Defense.
From what I was able to glean, it does not appear it has even gone to Committee. In any event, it doesn’t sound like much of a war or invasion if we are to partner with the subject country (Mexico) in taking action.
Is that your “bill?” And, please; a real bill: Not some blurb in ultra leftist organs such as The Nation or Rolling Stone.
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