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Despite Trump’s decidedly critical tone toward Ukraine and its president and warm gestures toward Russia, the level of overall American public sympathy with Ukraine and the lack of sympathy for Russia have not changed since the summer of 2024. If the intent of the public spat with Zelenskyy was to sour the American mood toward Ukraine, the latest poll indicates that it was a failure, not only in the continued high level of sympathy with Ukraine but also in that more people rated Trump’s performance as inappropriate than said the same about the Ukrainian president’s performance in that unprecedented meeting.

With only about one-third of Americans supporting his decision to suspend aid to Ukraine, Trump may have helped himself by quickly renewing the provision of aid and getting Ukraine to reportedly agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia.

As one might expect, the president has had some impact on his core Republican constituency. But the drop in Republican sympathy with Ukraine from 58% last summer to 45% now is modest if one considers that the Republican president is still in his early honeymoon period.

Trump received more support from Republicans for his aid suspension, with about two-thirds supporting the decision, and 21% opposing it. But while favoring Trump, one might expect more support for a president from his own party on a top and high-profile policy issue this early in his term.

Of course, a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war could impact public attitudes moving forward, especially at a time when polls show more Americans favor a quick end to the war. For now, though, the bottom line is that the American public appears to have made up its mind on Ukraine and Russia and Trump is cutting against the grain.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

This article is like a case study in how to present data to support the conclusion you want. Sure, more people support Ukraine than Russia, and that question would be relevant if the question was "which side to support" rather than "whether to continue being involved."

The reality that the polls show is that it breaks down along partisan lines. 2/3 of Republicans support the suspension of aid to Ukraine, and of the 21% who oppose it, only half say the support should continue "as long as it takes," with the other half saying either less than a year or 1-2 years. So only about 10% of Republicans are on board with supporting Ukraine for "as long as it takes," with the majority opposing aid entirely, and the rest either unsure or wanting it to be time-limited.

This marks a significant departure from the start of the war when there was wide bipartisan support. Based on the actual numbers in the article, the headline is dead wrong - Trump has dampened support for the war, mostly just within his base.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Fuck Russia, including the republican traitor filth.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Trump fails ~~to dampen public support for Ukraine~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

In the non-BS timeline (where we diverged from the Berenstein Bears/Shazam base reality) President Biden is selling Canada F-35s which they will use to help Ukraine, a NATO member, while ending the rising tide of authoritarianism and nationalism. In the BS timeline we’re in, we’d rather threaten Canada with annexation and help the dictators we once helped overthrow. With a former reality TV host and the richest person in the world. BS timeline.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sad to say this but long ago in school we were taught how war is good for the economy. Lots of American jobs go to making weapons for war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Seems like maybe you had a bad teacher then... It might look good in the short term, but it's is almost always bad for business (and literally everything else) in the long term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

It's literally the broken window fallacy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that might be canceled out by drops in foreign weapons orders given the new mistrust (see Portugal canceling their F-35 orders).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm really happy about that one. They haven't announced what the alternative is going to be, probably either Rafales or Typhoons.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

How many morons still support him and the GOP, while also continuing to claim to support Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

As long as his diapers remain damp...

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