Poll: America's Heart Is With Ukraine. Its Head Wants Out of the War.

By a slight majority (54%), Americans want to support Ukraine, so their hearts are committed to helping Ukraine fight the fight, even if victory is unlikely. We asked if America's current economic state ($34.5 trillion in debt, over $1 trillion in debt service payments, high inflation, and sky-high interest rates) would give them pause.

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By a smaller vote of 49%, respondents said they would still support sending money to Ukraine. This is a small dose of good news for the war hawks within the Beltway who are aggressively using guilt-trip narratives to pressure Congress into passing the $61 billion aid package.

But the rest of the poll results are terrible news for the Biden administration and the Neocons. Americans are dissatisfied (51%) that the Biden administration has not sought to end the war and say that Biden lacks a clear vision to do so (64%).

Ed Morrissey

In fairness, this is an attempt at conquest, not a dispute over a misunderstanding. The only way to end the war is for Russia to give up on its imperial ambitions or for Ukraine to capitulate to Russia. I don't think Biden could formulate a clear vision that doesn't embrace one of these two outcomes. 

With that said, the political problem for Biden and the "hawks" is that Ukraine probably can't win the war. They have to get Russia to exhaust itself on the shoals of their defenses, and those seem tenuous these days. This will take years to play out with or without American support, and Americans aren't into "years" when it comes to these conflicts. 

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