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Summary
A CBS News/YouGov poll found that 52% of Americans support Ukraine, while 44% remain neutral and only 4% back Russia.
Among Republicans, 37% support Ukraine, but 56% are neutral. The poll also showed that 51% approve of Trump’s handling of the war, while 49% disapprove.
A separate poll found 62% viewed Zelenskyy’s remarks as offensive, and 55% believe Ukraine should negotiate peace.
Despite concerns over U.S. foreign policy shifts, 78% of respondents support remaining in NATO, and 67% favor cooperating equally with allies.
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Republican sheep will toss their support behind Trump on any issue, so the numbers don’t reflect a well-informed public.
Has there ever been a well-informed public?
While media sources have always had agendas, I think the key difference now is the fact that people are relying more than ever on a oligopoly of social media platforms as their primary news source, rather than media outlets across the country.
Not only does an information oligopoly make it far easier for propaganda to be disseminated to national and international audiences, but it makes trading political favors for propaganda-backed political support far easier than ever before as well.
They’d toss their children into a pyre for Molech if Trump told them to
I doubt it matters what we think anymore. It barely did before, but I can’t see any light at the end of this American Experiment tunnel.
“Russian interference” is not just a few hackers breaking into emails—it’s a well-documented, multi-decade strategy of disinformation designed to weaken democratic institutions. The Kremlin has spent years building an extensive network of fake social media accounts, bot farms, and propaganda outlets to spread divisive narratives.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI, and cybersecurity experts have all confirmed that Russia’s influence campaigns exploit social and political fractures, using platforms like Facebook and Twitter to push misleading or outright false information. Reports from organizations like the RAND Corporation and Stanford Internet Observatory show how these tactics are designed to erode trust in democracy itself, making people more susceptible to authoritarian and extremist messaging.
This isn’t just speculation—it’s the exact playbook used in Russia’s interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections, as confirmed by U.S. intelligence agencies and the Mueller Report. The goal has always been to amplify distrust, push conspiracy theories, and create a populace that can no longer distinguish fact from fiction.
And now? We’re seeing the results. A country where misinformation spreads faster than the truth, where people take social media posts at face value instead of questioning their sources, and where a populist leader can ride that wave of disinformation straight into power.
Putin doesn’t need to fire a single shot—he’s watching Americans tear themselves apart over lies his operatives helped plant. And the worst part? Many people still refuse to acknowledge it’s happening.
Putin has long stated that Russia is at war with the West—not through traditional military means, but through information warfare. Intelligence agencies, cybersecurity experts, and independent researchers have repeatedly warned that we are being targeted. Yet, many in the West refused to take it seriously.
Now, we’re losing the war—not on the battlefield, but in the minds of our own citizens, as propaganda and disinformation tear at the very fabric of democracy.
agreed and to that same token the cuts to education and science spending are not just backwards Republicans talking away money from social systems.
they’re defunding them because they are a threat to their power
Selfish, sick, stupid, and misinformed the American way!
Which does not make a difference when a Russian agent sits in the White House and follows Putins commands.
This country is run by Nazis for Nazi scum. I have little faith in much of this terrible country.
i’d like to see how the polling demographics are selected.
They still make phone calls to houselines. It’s all old people.
The isolationism Ron Paul tapped into when he brought the libertarian party to prominence hasn’t gone anywhere. To many right of center Americans, we can’t afford to feed, house and clothe the poor not because we don’t adequately tax the wealthy, it’s because we give too much money to other countries (and other people they don’t like).
Who cares? No one’s listening.
48% of the country are fascists.
One nation, under greed, divisible, with misery, and injustice for all.
