CNN survey: Majority of Americans disapproved of Trump's Ukraine policy
CNN survey: Majority of Americans disapproved of Trump's Ukraine policy
Americans are skeptical that President Donald Trump will create peace in the region with his approach between Russia and Ukraine, according to one new CNN-UMMS . Most Americans see Trump's handling of the conflict negative, and 50% indicate that his approach harms the United States.
diplomatic efforts and Trump's responsibility
US diplomats are currently working on moving Russia to a temporary ceasefire in the war, which has been going on more than three years after the invasion of Russia. While the bidding administration strongly supports Ukraine and Russia is unequivocally responsible for the conflict, Trump blamed Ukraine for the outbreak of the war and described the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj as a dictator, which led to criticism from European ally and domestic opponents.
public opinion on Trump's approach
The latest survey by CNN shows that 59% of the Americans believe that it is not very likely or not likely that Trump's approach will bring long -term peace between Russia and Ukraine, while 41% say that it is at least something likely. Generally, almost 6 out of 10 Americans disregard Trump's handling of relationships with Russia (59%), and 55% are dissatisfied with his handling of the situation in Ukraine.
The opinions of the Americans about Trump's approach in the war between Russia and Ukraine are also reflected in the general views of his foreign policy: While 30% believe that his decisions have improved in America in the world, more than half (54%) say that they harm the reputation.
party political divisions
A significant part of the Republicans has doubts about Trump's foreign policy approach, including 15%, who see his foreign policy decisions as harmful to America, 18%, who say that his approach to war between Russia and Ukraine is bad for the USA, and 28%, the belief that his approach will probably not lead to long -term peace between the two countries. Democrats are more uniform in their negative views of Trump's foreign policy decisions.
opinions on Ukraine and Russia
A majority of Americans see Ukraine as an ally or friendly to the USA (72%) and Russia as unfriendly or hostile (81%). The proportion that Ukraine sees as allies has increased by 7 points since 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea by Russia. The negative views of Russia have also changed since then, since the proportion that Russia calls an enemy has increased from 25% in May 2014 to 44%.
Public opinion on Trump's handling of the war is strongly shaped in part, with 84% of Republicans being satisfied with Trump's procedure in Ukraine, compared to only 10% of the Democrats. Almost two thirds of the Democrats believe that the United States does too little to support Ukraine in the war against Russia, while about half of Republicans think that the United States is doing too much.
insight into the foreign policy doubts
The survey also shows that the majority of Americans Trump's more extensive approach evaluates international relationships. Almost 6 out of 10 Americans are dissatisfied with his handling of foreign policy, while 54% say that Trump is not an effective world leader, and 56% believe that Trump's cuts in federal programs will harm the country's reputation.
This assessment of Trump's foreign policy is in the middle of a chaotic beginning of his second term: Trump has threatened since the election in November, Territories of allies to confiscate , to freeze foreign aid programs , which has led to an intensified humanitarian crises and announced, a series of tariffs (including Submit the largest trading partners in the USA, Canada and Mexico, ) To introduce. He also has military help and secret service information for the Ukraine after the meeting with selenskyj in the oval office and suggested a plan to sell all Palestinians from Gaza.
changing views on allies and enemies
The survey also shows that the views of the Americans are changing over other nations because less and less a close connection to the traditional European allies of the United States are seeing and unfriendly feelings towards Canada and Mexico.
The Americans' assessments of traditional European allies have decreased constantly since August 2018. Only 58% now consider Great Britain as allies, which corresponds to a decline of 66% in 2018. This value has dropped from 49% to 39% for Germany and 56% to 45% for France. The Americans also tend to look at Mexico and Canada negatively in comparison to the past-only about half of the Americans view Canada as an ally (this was up to 65% in a CNN survey in 2000) and only 25% feel like Mexico (40% in 2000).
The views of the Americans to Israel have also developed a little more negatively. While 73% of Israel, as an ally or friendly, similar to the 75%, which felt like this in 2018, is the proportion of those who describe Israel as unfriendly or hostile, with 27% the highest that has been recorded in CNN surveys since 2000
Overall, respondents are most likely to consider Iran as unfriendly or as an enemy of the United States (88%), followed by North Korea (85%), Russia (81%) and China (74%). The respondents are split, as they rate Saudi Arabia, with 50% it as an ally or friendly and 49% describe it as unfriendly or hostile.
The survey also shows a continuation of the deterioration in the views of the Americans to China. In 2011, 62% of Americans considered China as an ally or friendly to the USA, a share that fell to 45% in 2018 and in the last survey of CNN to 25%.
The generally positive views of the Americans on Ukraine and Israel do not always lead to the desire that the United States supports its war effort. A quarter of those who see Ukraine at least as friendly says that the United States is doing too much to help the country in war against Russia, and 29% of Americans who consider Israel at least as friendly, believe that the United States provides too much support.
A total of 34% say that the USA does too much for Israel against Hamas, while 47% say that the United States does the right amount and set 19% that it is too little. In January 2024, 29% pointed out that the United States does not do enough for Israel.
The CNN survey was carried out by SSRS from March 6th to 9th under a randomized national sample of 1,206 US-growing people, which were selected from a probability-based panel. The surveys were carried out either online or by phone with a live interviewer. The results among all adults have an error margin of ± 3.3 percentage points.
The reporters of CNN, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, contributed to this report.
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