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Support for Ukrainian Aid Weakens

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As the war between Russia and Ukraine approaches its one-year mark, support for sending aid to Ukraine has waned among the American people.

A recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that less than half (48%) of American adults now support providing weapons to Ukraine. In May last year, it was supported by 60% of Americans.

Only 37% of Americans now support sending taxpayer dollars directly to Ukraine, while 38% say they are opposed. Last year, 44% supported financial aid to Ukraine, and only 32% were opposed.

Alex Hoxeng, a 37-year-old Republican from Midland, said that he expected the GOP to more strongly oppose sending American tax dollars to Ukraine, noting that inflation is on the rise.

“We should just stay out of it,” he said, as reported by the Associated Press. “Ukraine is halfway around the world, and we have our own problems.”

Big Spring resident Shandi Carter, 51, who said that she usually votes Republican, voiced her irritation about how the war in Ukraine has affected the American people, citing rising fuel prices and grocery costs.

“I just wish it was over. I wish it had never started,” she said, per the Associated Press. “It didn’t matter if there was a Democrat or Republican there. Putin was going to do what he wanted to do.”

However, Janice Fortado of Massachusetts said she believes President Biden should be commended for the way he has managed the war but now disagrees with his hesitation to send fighter jets.

“As my opinion evolved, I came to wish we had offered more to Ukraine sooner,” said Fortado, a 78-year-old Democrat, as reported by the Associated Press.

Most Americans still believe the U.S. should be involved in the Russia-Ukraine war to some extent, the poll showed.

The U.S. should play a “minor role” in the war, according to 49% of respondents, while 26% believe the nation should have a “major role.”

Only 24% of Americans believe the U.S. should not be involved with the war at all, according to this poll.

The poll also found that 63% of Americans favor imposing economic sanctions on Russia, and 55% support accepting Ukrainian refugees into the U.S.

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7 Comments

  1. ThisGuyisTom

    I believe that we should not be involved in the war at all. I like Ron Paul’s take on things.

    The U.S. dollar amount of aid for Ukraine is outrageous.

    Yet, East Palestine, Ohio citizens have been devastated and are unknowingly being continuously exposed to toxins daily. Toxins accumulate in the body. Breathing in toxins is like injecting the chemical into the bloodstream. This is exactly like what happened on 9/11 in NYC and thousands later died or became very sick.

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  2. Don M

    Let’s see, who benefits from sending aid to Ukraine? The military industrial complex and its shareholders when arms are sent.
    When monetary aid is sent, all the brokers involved who get paid a percentage to give our tax dollars to the people in power in the government and other assorted powerful people.
    The average Ukrainian sees very little, if any,
    benefit from money is sent.

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  3. Charles Moncrief

    Is Ukraine really the sweet innocent country the government and the press are touting? Or do those bio labs have some part in the poisoning of persons, which could be cause for Russia’s so-called unprovoked attacks on Ukraine? And for that matter, has our government been sending hush money to the ruler of Ukraine, with some ROI to our elites?

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    • jack Curtis

      the whole Ukraine war reeks of corruption going back to Bidens getting their prosecutor fired to protect Hunter Biden. I believe the money going to Ukraine is going into the DNC coffers as i dont see any signs of it being spent in Ukraine to fund the war. All that money with occasional news of a missile strike from one side or the other but no real war battles. We are living in the Truman Show where we are fed the story they want us to believe not the story that is truth.

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      • Janet

        Come on. Stop it with the crazy ideas. Find and follow the FACTS if you REALLY care, instead of spreading rumors to advance your right-wing political agendas!

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  4. Wrath

    Who do o support? Ukraine or Russia? Actually it’s like asking in a war between the Bloods And the Crips who do you like? Neither. Both governments are corrupt.

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    • Ellen

      Actually Ukraine has recently kicked out government officials who’ve been found guilty of corruption.

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