{"id":34060,"date":"2025-02-22T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/americans-sharply-divided-over-trumps-embrace-of-putin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:55:30","slug":"americans-sharply-divided-over-trumps-embrace-of-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/americans-sharply-divided-over-trumps-embrace-of-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans sharply divided over Trump\u2019s embrace of Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While US allies are alarmed at changing loyalties, new poll finds starkly partisan reaction to president\u2019s Ukraine policy<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s shocking and mendacious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/02\/14\/americans-views-of-the-war-in-ukraine-continue-to-differ-by-party\/\">attack<\/a> this week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukrainian<\/a> president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/volodymyr-zelenskiy\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>, as a \u201cdictator\u201d while cozying up to the Russian president and indicating that traditional US security support for Europe is waning may have alarmed US allies abroad but has prompted a more starkly divided response among Americans at home.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting the country\u2019s deeply partisan attitude to the new president and his \u201cAmerica first\u201d foreign policy doctrine, polling suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> are much more likely to oppose additional help for war-torn Ukraine. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/02\/14\/americans-views-of-the-war-in-ukraine-continue-to-differ-by-party\/\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a> earlier this month found that 47% of Republicans but just 14% of Democrats thought the US was providing too much support to Ukraine \u2013 views that have changed dramatically since the war began three years ago, when just 7% of all American adults (9% of Republicans and 5% of Democrats) said the US was providing too much support to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/22\/trump-putin-friendship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While US allies are alarmed at changing loyalties, new poll finds starkly partisan reaction to president\u2019s Ukraine policy Donald Trump\u2019s shocking and mendacious attack this week on the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a \u201cdictator\u201d while cozying up to the Russian president and indicating that traditional US security support for Europe is waning may have &#8230; <a title=\"Americans sharply divided over Trump\u2019s embrace of Putin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/americans-sharply-divided-over-trumps-embrace-of-putin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Americans sharply divided over Trump\u2019s embrace of Putin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}