Despite the pundit/Twitter debate, nearly 80% say working with allies re: Ukraine has been the right approach, 85% strongly or somewhat favor maintaining strict economic sanctions, 77% strongly or somewhat favor large US force presence near Ukraine...
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...and nearly 7 in 10 strongly or somewhat favor admitting large numbers of Ukrainian refugees to the US. Tellingly, despite these numbers, when asked whether they support Biden's policies on the war, they "only" favor him by a 47% to 39% margin.
In other words they overwhelmingly support Biden's policies but won't say so if they're defined in political terms. (This is often true--polls show vast majorities of Americans support most Biden/Dem agenda domestic agenda items, but that doesn't translate into polling results...
for president or party. Which goes to show, politics is less about policies and more about some brain-deadening, self-interest-negating combination of ideology, theology and reflex.) That said...
...when it comes to the Ukraine war, the vast majority of Americans, despite, politics, support the approach the administration is taking. The poll also suggests that among those who do support the policies, a larger group support even doing more to help Ukraine.
Finally, only 35% support the idea of taking military action even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia. (Or should that be: A surprisingly large percentage of Americans, over a third, would be willing to risk nuclear war to support Ukraine!)
In any event, the main takeaway here for the people of Ukraine, our allies and for Russia is that there is very strong popular support across both parties in the U.S. to support Ukraine, support NATO and to do more to defeat Russian aggression. Which is v. significant indeed
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