Assistance to Ukraine: American opinion is divided in two

48% of Americans said that the United States is obliged to help Ukraine in countering Russian aggression, while 49% believe that their country does not have to do so.

Source: “Yevropeiska Pravda with reference to Pew Research Center.

At the same time, the majority of Republicans (62%) believe that the United States has no obligation to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion.

Approximately two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (63%) say the U.S. has such a duty. Only 36% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters share the same opinion.

At the same time, 29% of Americans believe that the United States provides too much aid to Ukraine, while 26% say that it provides as much aid as needed. At the same time, about two in ten (19%) believe that the United States provides insufficient support, and a quarter are not sure.

Democrats are more likely to believe that the U.S. is providing either enough aid (36%) or not enough (27%). Only 13% believe that the United States provides too much aid to Ukraine.

While 47% of Republicans believe the U.S. provides too much aid to Ukraine, more than three times the share of Democrats. 18% of Republicans believe that the current level of aid is sufficient, while only 12% believe that the United States provides too little aid.

Also, Republicans and Democrats have different views on whether the war in Ukraine is the main threat to U.S. interests.

45% of Democrats now believe that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the main threat (this is 5 percentage points lower than in March 2022, but 7 points higher than a year ago). 26% of Republicans consider the war to be the main threat to U.S. interests (this share has not changed much since the beginning of 2023 and remains significantly lower than the 51% of Republicans who said so at the beginning of the full-scale war).

The Pew Research Center survey of 9,424 American adults was conducted from July 1 to July 7, 2024, before President Joe Biden announced that he was withdrawing from the election.

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 31/07/2024