A poll conducted days after President Joe Biden reportedly authorized Ukraine to use American Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles inside Russia shows that most Americans approve of the U.S. opposed to military aid.
CBS News/YouGov poll find Fifty-one percent of Americans do not support providing military aid and weapons to Ukraine, while 49 percent do.
There are notable differences in the demographic composition of the age groups. People under 65 are more likely to oppose sending aid and weapons, but a majority of people over 65 support aid to Ukraine.
Among those under 30, 53% oppose military aid, while 54% of those aged 30-44 and 45-64 also oppose military aid. Meanwhile, 6 in 10 Americans over 65 support arms shipments and military aid.
Opinions are divided along partisan lines, with 72% of Democrats supporting the aid, compared to 64% of Republicans and 54% of independents who oppose it.
The poll was conducted Nov. 19-22 among 2,232 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
The study was conducted days after reports surfaced on November 17 that Biden had reportedly given the go-ahead for the use of ATACMS missiles.
As Breitbart News' London Bureau Chief Oliver J.J. It responded by stating that it would be considered.
Tensions continued to rise last Tuesday. Russia claimed that a US-made ATACMS missile struck a military factory. Russia retaliated on Thursday with an attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, which initial reports suggested was carried out by an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICMB).
But, as Lane pointed out, Russian President Vladimir Putin said new weapons were used in the attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given his own version of events, saying that the attack was not an intercontinental ballistic missile (a weapon with a range of thousands of miles that flies into space and falls to Earth), but that it was an attack never seen before. He said it was caused by nuclear weapons. Intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). President Putin identified it as the “Oleshnik” (“Hazel”) type and insisted in a televised speech Thursday night that Western countermeasures were completely ineffective.
The escalation came shortly after Biden promised President-elect Donald Trump, who has long vowed to end the war with Russia and Ukraine, a smooth transition of power at the end of his term.
