White House downplays CNN poll showing majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine | CNN Politics
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The White House on Wednesday downplayed CNN polling showing most Americans oppose Congress providing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia ahead of a reported administration request for more aid.

Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud.

Exact full quote from CNN:

“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4085063

  • @SwingRiver
    6•1 year ago

    America wouldn’t invade they would follow the Cuba missile crisis playbook: destabilize the regime, support opposition factions, and institute economic sanctions. Russia is the only one that has a recent history of invading neighbors.

    NATO troops have been in Poland and the Baltics since '04 and there were positive relations between Russia and NATO during the war on terror period. Relations started to deteriorate when Putin decided to brand NATO as anti-Russian in late 2000s. Back then he saw the writing on the wall that a majority of Ukrainian people wanted to align more with the West which threatened his bloc.