Record-high level of Americans say US isnt doing enough for Ukraine: new poll
A record-high level of Americans believe the US isn’t doing enough to support Ukraine, jumping 16 percentage points from December as President Trump tries to wind down the war, a new poll shows.Nearly half, or 46%, of Americans feel the US isn’t doing enough for its war-torn ally, while 30% believe it’s doing too much, and 23% say Washington is giving Ukraine the right amount of support, the Gallup survey found.The poll shows that more Americans than ever want the US to do more for Ukraine since the war broke out three years ago and marks a significant jump from December, when 30% felt Washington wasn’t doing enough.Between late 2023 and this most recent poll, Gallup had regularly found that a plurality of Americans believed the US was doing too much for Ukraine.Trump just fully restored US military aid and intelligence-sharing again to Ukraine last week, after a brief pause while clashing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Zelensky infamously battled Trump and Vice President JD Vance in an Oval Office showdown in front of the cameras last month over whether Moscow could be trusted.
A firm 79% of Americans said they are “very” or “somewhat” worried that Russia won’t abide by the terms of an agreement, either, according to the latest Gallup poll.But Trump has long bemoaned the tens of billions of dollars worth of aid the US has marshalled to Ukraine since the war began and recently pushed for a mineral-rights agreement with Ukraine to recoup those taxpayer dollars.The White House also has been pushing a cease-fire plan.Last week, after a pressure campaign, Ukraine agreed to a 30-day cease-fire agreement championed by the Trump administration.Trump and Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin then talked about the proposal by phone Tuesday.The Kremlin rejected the full proposed cease-fire Trump sought but agreed to stop attacking Ukrainian “energy and infrastructure” for 30 days.That limited pause in attacks is intended to make space for negotiat...