Americans Are United on Ukraine

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/16/americans-are-united-on-ukraine/

Americans Are United on Ukraine
March 16, 2022 at 9:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

From Pew Research:

85% of Americans (including 88% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans) want to keep strict economic sanctions on Russia.

77% of all adults (including 81% of Democrats and 75% of Republicans) support keeping large numbers of U.S. forces in NATO countries near Ukraine.

69% of Americans (including 80% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans) favor admitting thousands of Ukrainian refugees into the U.S.

[Ray Bruns]

1. Why wouldn't Repugs have more support for admitting mor Ukrainian refugees

to the US? They are the right color and even have the right religion.

[wnylib]

2. Because Ukrainians are the enemies of

Republican friends?

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Because Trump and Putin

[calimary]

25. And we need to HANG TrumPutin/PutinTrump around the donald's neck

and from both ears. We can just tell him it's new jewelry.

And hang it all around the necks of EVERY republi-CON who walks the earth.

[xmas74]

5. Because they don't sound like them and don't eat like them.

We have a decent sized Ukrainian and Russian population just a county over.( A few hundred in a town of 20,000 is a big deal.) The Ukrainian and Russians live near each other because of shared language and culture.

Anyway, you'll hear the local Trumplicans make cracks about supposed poor English, poor education, poor hygiene and awful food. They also claim they're running small businesses out of business by running their own bakeries, markets, auto shops and handyman/small engine repair.

If you don't speak perfect English in an accent they approve? Not wanted.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. JHC, where do you live? That is disgusting.

[xmas74]

24. Rural Missouri nt

[Wounded Bear]

8. Actually, not the "right" kind of religion...

Eastern Orthodox doesn't really fit the Talibangelist "us" designation.

[Polybius]

12. Many are Jewish (including their President)

They are not the right religion according to Republicans.

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. 90% of American oligarchs are in favor of Putin

Who cares what the rabble thinks?

As my sig line says: "it's a big club, and you ain't in it."

[anarch]

7. a pretty good reason to hope that if this escalates

it will be in the direction of some kind of New World Order of peace, prosperity and cooperation among all the peoples of the world (aka the fundamentalists' and nationalists' absolute worst nightmare, and it would probably have to embrace socialism too...)--you know, rather than toward WWIII and global annihilation.

[Ray Bruns]

14. Now if we could only convince the MAGA rubes of this, we could make some progress.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. Lost cause. . .too many non-straight, non-male, non-American, non-white people to hate

because they are failures.

Cult members are programmed and it takes de-programming to make it happen.

[Harker]

6. Ask the same questions of republican'ts in Congress

and you'll see different numbers.

[lagomorph777]

9. If we don't capitalize heavily on this, we are fools.

[lees1975]

10. Yes!

And the lowest number in favor of something has to do with admitting more Ukrainian refugees. Who are the selfish, vile people who have completely forgotten who we are as Americans? That 31% of this country wants to restrict people from coming here tells us just how many stupid bigots and selfish pigs we have.

[Harker]

13. Yes, we must.

They've chained themselves to a dropping anchor, and the depth and breadth of the arrangements they made with Russians, governmental and otherwise, will soon be revealed.

Their gyrations in aid of obscuring these ties must be made to count against them, too.

[fightforfreedom]

11. 85% of Republicans????

Trump voters don't even know what planet they are on. They don't know where Ukraine is. They believe Putin is a great leader. I do not believe that poll. Trump voters are the most clueless people in history.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. Most Republicans support Ukraine.

Support for Putin is low except among extremists, who aren’t more than 15% of the population.

[babylonsister]

18. Don't lose sight of the fact that

most rethugs are not people who like or support mf45.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

20. Trumps push to destroy NATO has backfired, bigly. Putin's puppet is now his Frankenstein.

[RocRizzo55]

16. Well count me in the minority again

I am not in favor of ANY war.
“WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
USMC Major General Smedley Butler, 1935

[babylonsister]

19. I'm not either, but that wasn't one of

the distractors.

[iemanja]

21. Does your opposition to war include Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

Or is it just US wars you oppose? Of course, the US has not entered into war against Russia. It has imposed sanctions designed to avoid war, yet somehow you oppose them.

[RocRizzo55]

26. No, not one bit.

I am against ALL and ANY war, anywhere in the universe!

[Evolve Dammit]

23. If Vlad launches one nuke, chem weapons or NATO invasion, it will be WWIII. Glad we understand.

Aside from Fucker, MTG, Cawthorn, Mitch, Bannon, Flynn, Orange family, Cotten, NRA, Fox News et al, I think we're pretty much in agreement. Russian sympathy will be a very scarce commodity. May those mentioned (and I know I missed a bunch) rot in hell along with Putin. And I recognize that many, if not most Russians would want NONE of this, but they don't know WTF is happening in their name.