American support for prolonging the proxy war in Ukraine by sending endless taxpayer dollars overseas is sinking, a new Gallup poll out Thursday revealed.
A plurality of the Americans surveyed, 41 percent, said the United States is doing “too much” to support the war effort while just 33 percent said American assistance was the “right amount” and 25 percent said support was “too little.”
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, U.S. taxpayers dished out $113 billion in assistance to the war-torn nation last year. In October, President Joe Biden demanded Congress pass a $100 billion combined emergency aid package that earmarked more than $61 billion for Ukraine while reserving Israel and the southern U.S.-Mexico border less than $15 billion each.
In Gallup’s survey, however, which included just more than 2,000 U.S. adults interviewed online between Oct. 4-16, an increasing number of Americans want to the war to end quickly, rather than see a prolonged conflict wherein the Ukrainians reclaim territory. A slight minority, 54 percent, still said they preferred prolonging the war to help Ukraine capture lost territory while 43 percent said they would prioritize ending the war more quickly. Those numbers, however, represent a dramatic shift from 66 percent and 31 percent respectively in August last year.
The survey found skepticism of American aid to Ukraine was highest among Republicans and independents. Republicans were most likely to say U.S. taxpayers were doing “too much” in the effort, followed by independents and then Democrats.
