(03-05-2025, 01:55 PM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(03-04-2025, 06:45 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Is there another poll which shows a majority of Republicans support Putin?

Depends on what you mean by support. The figure I saw before the election showed about 4% of GOP voters felt favorably about Putin and Russia. That figure in recent polling has jumped to more than 40%. If you combine that with the GOP voters who now feel that Ukraine is to blame for the conflict, even if they’re not necessarily particularly fond of Putin, than it’s reasonable to say a majority of those voters support Russia now. That’s quite a turnaround.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurke...h-ukraine/

Russia is not our friend but they also aren't the enemy that the U.S.S.R. was. In some ways Russia has more potential for friendship with us with China moving more prominently to the top of the pecking order, as they are a geographically closer enemy of Russia than us. I don't want to be in a war with Russia, nor do I want any of these other countries doing something that will drag us into war with Russia. I also don't want to support Russia, but I don't care to stop them either; as it is now it's simply not in our interests to be on either side. I'm fine with selling guns and ammo to the Ukrainians if they want to buy our old hardware from us, but I have not one damn bit of interest in giving them the money to do so. We just have too many folks who are stuck in their Cold War/Red Dawn era feelings about a country that just isn't that country any longer.

---

(03-05-2025, 10:21 AM)TDOSS Wrote:

(03-05-2025, 07:29 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Lol, and there you have it. He demanded more than he'd already agreed to once he got to White House and got [BLEEP] slapped like you have the last two days. He thought he could force our hand and found out that the new guy isn't a vegetable like the last one. What he and you don't get is you don't have the upper hand, you both suffer the same delusion. The days of the USA being everyone's doormat have come to a satisfying end.  He's starting to get it but he's actually got something to lose. You can afford the stupidity, because you're just a chickenhawk with no risk except those brutal keyboard callouses you get from rage posting on the internet.

You mean except Russia’s doormat.

The one country that’s actually a threat.

A threat to who? America? Laughable. They can't beat a second-rate landlocked nation like Ukraine who is right next door. There's not a credible threat from Russia aside from potential nuclear attack, but even that threat is miles less than it's been in my own lifetime. Your Russian bogeyman is just shadows on the wall.

---