Tag: foreign policy

POLL: SIGNIFICANT GAP BETWEEN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC’S FOREIGN POLICY PREFERENCES AND ELITE POLICYMAKING

James Fetzerblog

POLL Top Key takeaways Background Methodology On the Ukraine-Russia war On a Taiwan contingency On the Israel-Hamas war On a potential security guarantee for Saudi Arabia KEY TAKEAWAYS 80% of respondents believed the U.S. should either make aid to Ukraine conditional, reduce aid, or cut aid to Ukraine entirely. More than 50% of respondents did not think Ukraine can win the Ukraine-Russia War, only 12% thought the war would end in a Ukrainian victory, and significantly more than 50% felt either the war would end through negotiations/ceasefire or continue with…

Jefferson Morley, Weakest Link: Impeachment and National Security

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Jefferson Morley Barack Obama talks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine. Photograph Source: White House – Public Domain In the summer of 2016 President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t agree about much, except for one obscure issue of U.S. foreign policy: lethal military aid to Ukraine. As commander in chief, Obama objected to such assistance, even in the face of a Russian proxy war. So did candidate Trump.  On the eve of Trump’s nomination, his allies replaced the GOP platform’s demand for…