The war in Ukraine has unsettled American politics. The degree to which it is changing American politics is the more consequential question for President Biden and the Democrats. Russia’s brutal and unprovoked aggression against its sovereign neighbor has refocused the world. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a figure of […] Read more »
Here’s what Americans think the US should be doing about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Americans’ support for economic sanctions on Russia is broad and bipartisan, according to new polling on the public’s response to the war in Ukraine. And so far, that’s the case even when the potential for higher gas prices is considered. At the same time, the American public largely continues to […] Read more »
What We Know About American Public Opinion and Ukraine
A review of available public opinion data establishes several basic conclusions about Americans’ views of the situation in Ukraine, recognizing that opinions are fluid and subject to change as the situation there continues to unfold. Americans are following the Ukraine situation closely, as might be imagined given its dominance of […] Read more »
Americans unite behind Ukraine and Zelensky and against Russia
Most Americans support Ukraine as it battles Russia’s invasion, though most don’t go so far as to back American military involvement. Russia is on the wrong side of the conflict, according to most Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll: Almost none say they sympathize with Russia more than Ukraine, and […] Read more »
Anger at Russian Americans misdirected since most also scorn Putin over Ukraine war
… In a first-of-its-kind Suffolk University/USA TODAY national poll of Americans of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, we find that not only those of Ukrainian heritage but also Americans of Russian heritage overwhelmingly disapprove of the war. In fact, most Americans of Russian heritage went beyond disapproving of the war in […] Read more »
Not a distant war: US residents with ties to Russia and Ukraine unite against Putin
Their relatives are at war 5,000 miles away. In the USA, though, residents who identify with their Russian heritage and those who identify with their Ukrainian heritage express strikingly similar views about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a pair of exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University polls finds. The two groups are […] Read more »