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.
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.
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.
How many morons still support him and the GOP, while also continuing to claim to support Ukraine?
Fuck Russia, including the republican traitor filth.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Trump fails
to dampen public support for UkraineSad 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.
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.
It’s literally the broken window fallacy
Even better when you can arm, and later rebuild, both sides.
that might be canceled out by drops in foreign weapons orders given the new mistrust (see Portugal canceling their F-35 orders).
I’m really happy about that one. They haven’t announced what the alternative is going to be, probably either Rafales or Typhoons.
As long as his diapers remain damp…
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I am just confused, you didn’t even defend Trump.
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Want me to PM you literal footage of the massacres?
Or are you referring to the false flag operation which is proven by several hundred witness testimonies including wounded protestors, 2,000 videos, 6,000 photos, and 30 gigabytes of radio intercepts?
I am sorry but disinformation is not a synonym for reality.
Why would I trust anything you say?
Images and videos can and have been faked, especially in war, with AI it is easier than ever.
So no, seeing pictures or video sent by someone who I consider a Russian asset won’t change my mind.
AI in 2014? What? Not to mention that Western Media even admits Ukraine shot at unarmed locals.
Will PM you including the western media statements!
Faked pictures and footage have been used for centuries, I only said that AI makes it easier than ever.
EDIT: I got the list of videos, I am not trusting a bunch of random YT videos, especially not since I consider you to be a Russian asset.
I sent you message of 10+ videos, a vice news dispatch, and western media statements.
Meh, as I said before, I consider you to be a Russian asset, and have no interest in watching any random yt video you send me.
We will always support Ukraine.
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Da-da-dadama ti moia!
Eh, podaite nam karetu, vot etu!
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Maybe Mexico should have invaded Texas after George Floyd.
Its shocking how so much Russia defending sounds just like the Bush excuses for Iraq. “Well we didn’t find weapons of mass destruction, but the leader was just really awful so we had to, right?”
The murder of George Floyd is not comparable to Azov and AFU being sent into a city and shooting at crowds of civilians.
I’ve known you since you were a twenty.
I was twenty.
Lmaoo this guy up here accidentally forgot to mention that someone else is massacring Ukrainians right now.
Also what you posted is the kind of “information” which is absolutely baseless or taken out of context.
You better change side, those rubles ain’t gonna be worth much soon
Perhaps Ukraine should have implemented Minsk? Just a thought.
Start wearing purple for me nowww
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Can’t come up with an argument?
I have more productive things to be doing with my life than arguing with a bad-faith brick wall. Bye!
Please explain how I argue in bad faith.
Lmao. Nah. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Thanks that’s interesting! Another tactic is the ‘fake educating’, where they provide trash evidence and lots of it, and demand that you look at it otherwise you don’t want to learn the ‘truth’. There’s a tankie here who does that.
I mean not every video I have of the Mariupol Massacre is entirely pro-Russia biased.
One of them show a bad actor in the form of a anti-maidan separatist whom hid a gun, pulled it out and shot at Ukrainian troops before hiding behind a crowd forcing Ukrainian troops to fire into the crowd to get this bad actor but they end up accidentally shooting a unarmed civilian in the head, the photo of the dead body (or sometimes the video but with the bad actor suspiciously cut out iirc) is often sent out without any mention of bad actor and without context.
But videos that take place prior to this incident show Ukrainian troops have also shot at unarmed civilians with little to no provocation nor any bad actor being in play.
How am I Sealioning? I am merely showing evidence and stating what it is.
Start wearing purple for me nowww
So Fio-Fio-Fioletta! Eta!
Da-da-dadama ti moia!
Eh, podaite nam karetu, vot etu!
I mi poedem k ebeniam!
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Take your Russian talking points and shove them up your ass
I am sorry that I have literal footage of the massacre.
I am sorry that several hundred witness testimonies including wounded protestors, 2,000 videos, 6,000 photos, and 30 gigabytes of radio intercepts proves the false flag operation.
proves the false flag operation
Seems like you’re sitting on a gold mine… You should write an expose and bring all of this evidence to the mainstream.
Any day now…
And to be clear, it’s Ukraine that did the false flag operation on Russia. Right. Got it.
Ivan Katchanovski a Canadian and Ukrainian political scientist whom teaches at the University of Ottawa has written about the false flag operation where far right maidan snipers shot their own fellow maidan protestors then blamed it on the government, this led to the downfall of Yanukovych‘s regime.
I think you know what color we all see you wearing best, mate. Breathe. Your sanity and wits? They’ll all vanish.
It’s just a
MATTER OF TIME.
SO, AH, YEAH, AND… 🎵
Aw 😢
Have you tried wearing purple?
(Since I can imagine those not in the know could misunderand this; Gogol is Ukrainian 🙂)
I’ll ignore the meaning of the song and what you are trying to imply but only because it is a banger.
I get it, comrade. Purple is dangerous. It’s a slippery slope—first, you wear it, then you start questioning rigid masculine archetypes, and before you know it, you’re rejecting authoritarianism altogether. It’s okay. Just breathe. Let go. Wear the purple. 😘
Let the banger bang 😉 🍆💜
We can all tell you’re wanting it. You said so yourself!
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Da-da-dadama ti moia!
Eh, podaite nam karetu, vot etu!
I mi poedem k ebeniam!
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Da-da-dadama ti moia!
Eh, podaite nam karetu, vot etu!
I mi poedem k ebeniam!
🇺🇦 💜 😘
Deleted?!? Awww have we shaken your confidence comrade?
