As the war in Ukraine nears the end of its first year, Americans are starting to believe Washington is sending too much support to Kiev. Pew Research conducted a poll in January and found the number of Republicans that are opposed to the current level of support for Ukraine is now 40%. The U.S. has pledged well over $100 billion in aid to Kiev, mostly in arms and military equipment.
In March 2022, Pew reported 49% of Republican voters believed the US was not giving enough aid to Ukraine and only 9% responded that Washington was sending too much support to Kiev. Those numbers have now nearly reversed with 40% saying there is too much support for Kiev, while only 17% said the Joe Biden administration is not doing enough for Ukraine.
Democratic voters have had a far slower, but a similar trend. In the early months of the war, only 5% of blue voters believed Washington was sending too much aid; that number has grown to 15%. However, Pew’s poll conducted in 2023 found nearly a quarter of Democrats want the White House to do more, up three percentage points from the September results.
The Pew results reflect polls conducted by Morning Consult and Concerned Veterans for America in September. The surveys found a growing number of Americans opposed to giving more aid to Ukraine, led by Republican voters.
In the opening months of the war, the White House refused to provide Ukraine with advanced American weapons. However, in recent weeks, the Biden administration has significantly escalated its support for Kiev by authorizing transfers of Abrams Tanks and long-range missiles. Some Western officials are increasingly concerned that these advanced weapons transfers to Kiev risk direct war with Moscow.
Reprinted with permission from The Libertarian Institute.
Kyle Anzalone is news editor at the Libertarian Institute, assistant editor at Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest. Connor Freeman is a writer and assistant editor at the Libertarian Institute, and co-hosts Conflicts of Interest.
$100,000,000,000+ we have spent in Ukraine has only produced quarter of million dead bodies on both sides and much of Ukraine in ruin. At least *some* Americans are waking up. Stop supporting this fruitless war and start the talks for peace!
Indeed … and if death and ruin has been the point all along for the empire of chaos?
“Too much” is any amount whatsoever. Duh!!!
Most of those money went direct to the accounts of American oligarchs. Russian military budget is less than that and yet every day Russian army is shooting about 60 000 shells while Ukrainian/NATO army is shooting only about 6 000 shells. This war is mostly artillery war. What concerns the air forces, Russian superiority is even more obvious.
“Most of those money went direct to the accounts of American oligarchs.”
As well reported, most u.s. spending on Ukraine is military; as also well reported, the u.s. can’t account for where a lot of the money and weapons in corrupt ukraine went.
But that the Ukraine spending never went there – in the form of weapons – and “most…money went direct to the accounts of American oligarchs”?
Advance thanks for supporting an otherwise worthless claim.
The logic is not your strong point.
“The logic is not your strong point.”
Logic? Logic is, ‘If you coulda supported yr claim ya woulda; and since ya didn’t, ya can’t.’
Logic is also, ‘Since you couldn’t pull up evidence supporting yr claim, therefore ya pulled the claim out of yr ass.’
The US has a three front war going with Russia, China and Iran. Now the fourth front is opening wide. Americans who see the corruption going on at the bipartisan military feeding trough are viewed as internal enemies of national security. Hollywood fueled hate for brown people has expanded to educated people who don’t follow caveman religions. Christian hate is bringing down America from the inside.
It is an open question how much time we as a people have left before the forces of darkness and destruction take hold and bring about the abyss or end of days whether the cause is Nuclear or extinction by climate change.The ruling classes have clearly made a decision. War over peace,death over life and poverty over prosperity.
Assange came to the conclusion that the evolution is always finishing with the self destruction.
not strategy but slip and slide. those increasing numbers of ‘as long and much as it takes’ Democrats might consider sending off/volunteering their own kids to bleed.
“…those increasing numbers of ‘as long…as it takes’ Democrats”?
wait – you mean falling numbers…right? …ie, though it’s happening less, ‘war party dem’ support is falling too…
wish I meant falling numbers but for Dems..no. ‘do more’ up three percent since September
Since when does the ruling class of Capitalists,Imperialists,warmongers and racists pay any attention to the wants and needs of the populace? If you do not agree with the national policys of the establishment there is a jail cell waiting for you somewhere. If you are black and protest too strenously better duck. Some cop will stop your car and beat the hell out of you or worse.
I wish this was about the war, but I think it is really just partisanship, all about Biden vs MAGA.
Pro-/anti-Ukraine war really about partisan domestic politics?
So basically Trump Republicans are not simply ‘anti-war’ but largely against it because it’s the Democrats’ war? And Democrats support the war for largely domestic reasons – as a way to get election support from normally pro-war Republicans, and also to hammer away at their Russiagate ‘Trump-Putin’ messaging?
That is a fair and important point.
As polls show, not only do Democrats mainly support this war, but Democrat support has fallen much less.
Here we can add another reason for Democratic support for the war – it is a way of beating the left, both by pressuring them to support the ‘democracy-lovin’-war-party,’ and by lumping antiwar leftists with Trump – just as Democrats did with Sanders in 2016 and 2020.
From one pov, this is reason to question supposed ‘growing antiwar sentiment’ – especially since the elected Republican Party almost completely supports the war.
But from another pov, if it turned out there were swing voters – left and right – prepared to vote 3rd party or Republican over the US’s ‘endless war’ strategy…
…well this purely partisan electoral concern could imaginably pressure Democrats.
With this potentially apocalyptic war and the incredible propaganda pressure and censorship surrounding it, it’s getting harder for the Democrats to claim to be the lesser evil.
The Republicans want to persecute marginalized groups.
The Democrats are fomenting wars that could KILL EVERY SINGLE MARGINALIZED PERSON ON EARTH.
The marginalized have a poor chance to survive even in the wildlife. Here you are right.
“The Democrats are fomenting wars that could KILL EVERY SINGLE MARGINALIZED PERSON ON EARTH.”
Have always pictured a cabal of flesh-eating neocons (oops…sorry, zombie…i meant the bad sort of flesh-eaters) pulling the doomsday lever…instead, now, could be neocon-enabling Democrats who did it by their win-at-any-cost conniving for partisan advantage…
We easily forget that NEOcons are NEO because they were liberals who wanted to wage war on the world, but were frustrated by Democratic regimes in the past that we’re significantly less bone hungry. So they changed parties.
Now that we have the Woke culture wars to make the libs feel better about being evil towards the rest of the world (but they aren’t racist!), the Neocons can go back to just being warmongering neoliberals.
Proxy wars can cost as much as declared ones, but
the same people get rich /richer from them.
That’s correct. The wars are profitable only for MIC and for the corrupted politicians. If Americans want to stop their imperialistic wars, they should think about the creation of such a political system where no one would be able to profit from the wars. The nationalization of the military industry could be helpful. Why no one is talking about the nationalization of MIC? Of course they can’t talk about that on TV because TV also belongs to the oligarchs. So, the first and the most urgent thing is the nationalization of the main TV channels. Then the democracy may start to work.
An alternative theory: What if the Phoebus Cartel never really shut down, and its principal members (the surviving ones of which seem to be heavily invested in renewable energy and low-power-consumption electronics) are behind the war, specifically for the purpose of keeping fossil fuel prices high so that their products are in demand?
Yes, I’ve been reading Thomas Pynchon.
When has “the will of the people” ever been a thing in the USA? In August of 2001 few Americans thought invading Afghanistan was a good idea. By the end of September fully 80% of Americans and all but one Congress person were all for it. We were manipulated as a nation into fighting the so-called Global War on Terror, which has bankrupted us both financially and morally.
Now we’re being manipulated into what will eventually be a catastrophic war will Russia, which will be the end of the USA as we know it. The real perps of 9/11 must be laughing their asses off.
The perps of 9/11 live in the United States
Spot on !
“Growing #’s of Americans Say US Is Giving Ukraine Too Much Aid”
1/ Dropping support for US Ukraine foreign policy goes further: A new NBC poll says Americans evenly split on whether to give ANY more military aid to Ukraine:
“Americans are split on providing more funding and weapons to Ukraine, with 49% believing Congress should do this, versus 47% saying it shouldn’t.”
https: //www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/poll-americans-concerned-biden-documents-trumps-rcna67942
2/ That’s on top of previous polls showing more than half of Americans now want US negotiation vs ‘military only’ (Quincy poll, plus a Seattle poll Jacobin’s Branco Marcetic linked somewhere showed same thing)
Speaking only for myself, of my world, with the people I live and work with, moving around in a big Merican city, I only hear what we all know. That everything goes to War, while on our own streets, there are NEVER any funds. Turning off the state and the media turns off most of the lying nonsense.
I was once a Democrat.
Then I grew up.
This money could have been better spent in the US of A or even better not spent at all.
“support” and “aid”, eh? We just love to help, maybe even too much. Imagine how popular the policy would be if we called it more accurately “guns” and “advanced people-killing explosives”.