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.
Are we talking about Russia’s crimes in Ukraine, the country it invaded 3 years ago while using double speech about a special operation? When Ukraine has occupied vast amounts of Russian land, stolen Russian children, raped and abused Russian people… Then maybe I’ll watch your shitty propaganda.
How do you feel about your country having groups of male soldiers that the other soldiers rape when they feel like it? You should show your support of russia and its military by joining that group. Then you can be a real brownnoser.
What about it?
On the topic of stolen children, perhaps you should research Operation Babylift. Operation Babylift was the mass kidnapping of allegedly orphaned children from South Vietnam to the United States. The Russians gave similar reasons for them evacuating children.
However, many children in both operations were not actually orphans and had families thus in both situations, it was kidnapping not evacuating but in Russia’s case, as part of negotations, Russia and Ukraine return children to families.
What the hell was Russia supposed to do? Let them starve to death in rubble?
To paraphrase some guy 5 days ago, many of Ukraine’s children were sitting in abandoned orphanages and other abandoned buildings such as schools in an active warzone and then were evacuated from cities the Russians knew that Ukrainians would probably hit with artillery.
Would you rather have them die?
Perhaps you should focus on truly horrendous Russian atrocities like Bucha massacre and Izium massacre.