Just over half of American voters think Ukraine is winning the war against Russia and nearly two-thirds want to keep helping them in their fight, according to a new Fox News survey. Sixty-four percent favor the U.S. continuing to provide weapons to Ukraine and 63% support ongoing financial aid. Those […] Read more »
2022’s Most Unexpected Winners and Losers
Generally, we don’t like to endorse zero-sum views of the world, but it was hard to miss the seesaw effect at play across the political landscape of 2022. So we offer for your amusement (or annoyance, depending on your political priors) 11 sets of paired winners and losers — the […] Read more »
Americans support giving weapons to Ukraine — but that support declines with Russia’s threats
American sympathies have been with Ukraine in its battle against Russia since Russia invaded in February — but Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will be asking for more than sympathy in his in-person address to Congress that is scheduled for Wednesday night. President Joe Biden is expected to announce during Zelensky’s […] Read more »
The U.S. Should Continue Supporting Ukraine—Americans Want To
The Ukrainian liberation of western Kherson Oblast on November 11 was a major victory. It has not ended the terrible pressure under which Ukrainians find themselves, however. … Americans, fortunately, seem to agree that the US should continue to support Ukraine militarily and financially despite hinted Russian nuclear threats. A […] Read more »
International Attitudes Toward the U.S., NATO and Russia in a Time of Crisis
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought war to Europe at a scale unseen since the 1940s. In response, the United States and its NATO allies have supplied Ukrainian defense forces with weapons and training, while millions of refugees have fled into neighboring countries. The war has been the center of […] Read more »
Biden’s defense of democracy, strong abroad, is struggling on his home turf
Joe Biden has made vindicating democracy the central objective of his presidency. Improbably, he has found more success abroad than at home so far. The President’s signal achievement has been uniting Western democracies in defense of Ukraine against Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian aggression. With coordinated flows of military equipment, […] Read more »