Would Republicans Really Cut Off Ukraine? – Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
Reuters polled American adults in early October and found that 73 percent continue to support the Ukrainian war effort, including two-thirds of self-described Republicans. One month earlier, Gallup found that 66 percent of all Americans support Ukraine s effort to retake its territory by force, and most Republicans agreed with them. A July poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs pegged the GOP s support for arming Ukraine at 68 percent compared with 72 percent of all respondents. These numbers are generally reflective of polling both of American adults and Republican voters from the outset of this conflict. From the initial invasion, to the siege of Kyiv, to the collapse of the Russian lines around Kharkiv, to today, with Ukraine putting pressure on territories Russia and its proxies have occupied since 2014, Americans views of the conflict have been largely static.
If the GOP majority hopes to defund Ukraine over the preference of a majority of voters, Republicans in leadership are going to have to make the case to the public. Every minute they spend doing that is a minute that isn t spent addressing inflation, securing the border, supporting local law enforcement, curbing the efforts of social engineers to teach progressive cultural values in the classroom, and so on. In other words, the Republican majority would have to abandon the issues that got them the majority in the first place, and only to satisfy the fixations of a loud minority of populist agitators.
I’d rather support Ukraine than 9/10 of the BS we pay for and borrow for. Better than flying to Mars, the Dept. of Education, half our military CF’s — the list could go on.