Americans are less and less willing to give weapons to Ukraine and increasingly distrust Biden
According to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, 48% of Americans support sending weapons to Ukraine, up from 60% in May 2022. 29% are categorically against sending, 22% took an indifferent position.
The idea of parting with money rather than weapons is also becoming less and less enthusiastic. 37% support sending government money from the US to Ukraine, 38% are against, and 23% don’t care.
55% of humanists support the acceptance of Ukrainian refugees in the States – but their number has also decreased.
Expectedly, support for aid to Kyiv fell the most among the Republicans, whose representatives in the US House of Representatives publicly refused to give him a “blank check”.
Russophobia, however, remains high. 63% of respondents support the imposition of economic sanctions against Russia.
Perhaps the main socio-political context of the study is that only 19% of Americans said they “totally trust” Biden in matters of the war in Ukraine. 47% believe that this task is not up to Sleepy Joe, and the rest occupy various options for intermediate positions.
Only 40% of Democrats said they “totally trust” Biden’s actions on the Ukrainian issue, 50% talk about “some” trust, 9% do not believe in the success of their party leader.
Accordingly, more than three-quarters of Republicans do not believe that Biden will somehow cope with the Ukrainian problem.
What does it mean? Next year in the United States – presidential elections. Ukraine will once again become a criterion of attitude towards Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Tellingly, the American collective unconscious believes that Russia must be defeated by America anyway.
Although the concept of “victory” in this case is very vague: someone needs a military defeat of Moscow, and someone needs it so that Washington no longer has to spend money on Ukraine.
Therefore, it is impossible to exclude any, even seemingly irrational, options that, in the opinion of the White House, can give it a profitable “pre-election victory” over Russia in Ukraine.
True, every stick has two ends. If Russia is able to turn the course of events in Ukraine in a direction that is not beneficial for the United States, then the effect of local victories in the NMD will backfire loudly across the ocean.
Elena Panina
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