Most Americans think that Ukraine should keep getting armed help.
Most Americans think the U.S. should focus more on problems at home and stay out of foreign matters. This is true even though most Americans also believe the U.S. should be a leader in the world and that the country needs a strong defense.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans, or 65%, think the U.S. would be “better served by withdrawing from international affairs and focusing more on problems here at home.” These results were shared directly with Fox News Sunday by the Ronald Reagan Institute.
Even though this shows that Americans want to stay away from other countries, the same poll showed that big majorities also want to be very involved in foreign matters. Over three-quarters of respondents, or 76%, said they think U.S. leadership and participation in foreign events are “essential” for improving the economy and ensuring fair trade deals.
74% said it was important for the U.S. to stand up for human rights and freedom worldwide, and 85% said it was important for the U.S. to keep a strong force that can maintain peace and wealth at home and around the world.
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Rachel Hoff, the policy director at the Ronald Reagan Institute, says that the results show that Americans “don’t think they should have to choose between domestic priorities and international leadership.”
“They want our leaders to focus on problems here at home while also keeping a strong military, promoting international trade, and defending human rights abroad,” Hoff said. “In the end, they don’t want the U.S. to pull out of the world. They want us to be in charge.”
The study comes at a time when there is still a lot of talk about how involved the U.S. should be in protecting Ukraine from Russia’s attack. Some say that the billions of dollars spent on arming the Ukrainian military would be better spent on problems closer to home.
But a poll by the Reagan Institute found that most Americans, 59%, agree with giving military help to Ukraine, while only 30% disagree. Another 11% said they didn’t know.
Americans also think it’s in the U.S.’s best interest for Ukraine to win its war with Russia, with 75% saying it’s important for Ukraine to win and 17% saying it’s not essential.
82% of Americans said it was important for U.S. foreign policy to focus on fighting Chinese armed power.
Other things that respondents thought should be a focus of U.S. foreign policy were promoting freedom and democracy in authoritarian countries (71%), pushing for nuclear disarmament (81%), negotiating good trade deals for the U.S. (88%), countering China’s economic power (78%), fighting terrorist networks (92%), protecting human rights in other countries (82%), preventing countries that don’t have nuclear weapons from getting them (87%), and protecting U.S. jobs and industries.
The poll was done from May 30 to June 6. It was based on a group of 1,254 people with a margin of error of 2.8%.
