A recent poll carried out by Defense Priorities, a realist, foreign policy organization discovered that more and more Americans are becoming skeptical of DC’s desire to pursue conflicts abroad.
80% of poll respondents stated that the United States government should either condition aid to Ukraine, reduce it, or cut it off completely.
52% of respondents do not believe Ukraine can win the war against Russia. While, 42% believe that the Russo-Ukrainian conflict will end via negotiations or ceasefire.
26% believe that the current fighting and trench warfare will slow down a bit, but not come to a formal conclusion
47% of poll respondents strongly agreed either strongly agreed (22%) or somewhat agreed (25%) that the US government should not let Ukraine strike Russian territory with American weapons due to how it could escalate the war and bring about a direct conflict between NATO and Russia.
With respect to the growing conflict between China and Taiwan, 30% of respondents indicated that the US should defend Taiwan in the case that China invades the island.
44% of respondents either strongly agreed (19%) or somewhat agreed (25%) that avoiding a war with China is more important than preserving Taiwan’s political sovereignty from mainland China.
66% of respondents believe the US should compel Taiwan to spend more on deterrence capabilities against China before the US makes any ironclad commitments to defend Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion,
With respect to the Israeli conflict, 47% of respondents signaled that the US government should pressure Israel to not broaden its current conflict with Hamas into Lebanon by taking on Hezbollah. Only 20% of respondents believe that the US should not pressure Israel to exercise restraint in this conflict zone.
81% of respondents are against a US commitment to deploy American service members to Saudi Arabia to defend it from rivals such as Iran.
Overall, Americans are not hungry for war. The political class is a different story. The US’s real defense priorities are located in the Western Hemisphere. Namely, at the US’s southern border with Mexico, which is being overwhelmed by illegal alien invaders, drug traffickers, human smugglers, and potential terrorists.
This is where the real national security threats to the US are located. The southern border is where the bulk of defense resources should be shifted as opposed to some country thousands of miles away that has little to no geopolitical importance for the US.