Despite Trump’s decidedly critical tone toward Ukraine and its president and warm gestures toward Russia, the level of overall American public sympathy with Ukraine and the lack of sympathy for Russia have not changed since the summer of 2024. If the intent of the public spat with Zelenskyy was to sour the American mood toward Ukraine, the latest poll indicates that it was a failure, not only in the continued high level of sympathy with Ukraine but also in that more people rated Trump’s performance as inappropriate than said the same about the Ukrainian president’s performance in that unprecedented meeting.
With only about one-third of Americans supporting his decision to suspend aid to Ukraine, Trump may have helped himself by quickly renewing the provision of aid and getting Ukraine to reportedly agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia.
As one might expect, the president has had some impact on his core Republican constituency. But the drop in Republican sympathy with Ukraine from 58% last summer to 45% now is modest if one considers that the Republican president is still in his early honeymoon period.
Trump received more support from Republicans for his aid suspension, with about two-thirds supporting the decision, and 21% opposing it. But while favoring Trump, one might expect more support for a president from his own party on a top and high-profile policy issue this early in his term.
Of course, a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war could impact public attitudes moving forward, especially at a time when polls show more Americans favor a quick end to the war. For now, though, the bottom line is that the American public appears to have made up its mind on Ukraine and Russia and Trump is cutting against the grain.
You never responded about the rape battalions. Are you going to show your allegiance and join? Russian men are way too strong and tough to be gay so I’m sure you’ll be fine.
If you are referring to the incidents I am thinking of, so says an anti-Putin group that was formed in April 2022 and resides outside Russia.
Lol.
Even if true, Dedovshchina and Dedovshchina-like practices ain’t surprising to me anyways considering it happens to most post-Soviet armies including Russia and Ukraine.
Are we still talking about the groups of Russian soldiers who rape the other soldiers? You seem to have gotten a bit vague on this topic.
I’m talking about Russian men raping other men, bad enough, but I believe its also illegal to be gay in Russia? So I’m a bit confused about this.
I’m sure there are at times hard choices to be made in Russia and often the best you can do is make sure you get a stolen washing machine for your sacrifices.
They can really make you an offer you can’t refuse if the other option is being a soldier in a battalion which means you get raped by other Russian soldiers and humiliated before you die in the meat grinder with insufficient supplies. I think I’d choose the troll farm too.
I literally addressed this.
If you are referring to the incidents I am thinking of, so says an anti-Putin group that was formed in April 2022 and resides outside Russia.
Lol.
Even if true, Dedovshchina and Dedovshchina-like practices ain’t surprising to me anyways considering it happens to most post-Soviet armies including Russia and Ukraine.
Since you cannot read I will do a TLDR.
TLDR: your claim assuming we are talking about the same thing could not be independently verified. Even if true, hazing is conducted in both Ukraine and Russia.
The incidents of what? Is this the russian Tianamen square?
Your claim that Russian soldiers are being forced to rape each other.
They aren’t forced. Some are put into groups where they have no status, seemingly like a caste system, and the other soldiers can do whatever they want to them, somewhat like hazing but once they have been raped they’re considered worthless and will continue to be raped by anyone, so they’re actually forced soldier sex slaves.
As i understand it, the other soldiers who rape them want to do it, they aren’t forced, though I guess being forced to do it is more brutal in a way. I’d guess those soldiers get off on the humiliation as well as the obvious - fucking a man. The Russian society is inhumane on many levels.
Maybe the rapists actually aren’t gay and the humiliation of another person is enough to do it for them, who knows, maybe they give them viagra. I mean, you would have to ask them.
There seems to be a lot of this brutality around in dictatorships, like the Israeli guards who were recorded raping Palestinian men and then the politicians and people condoned and defended it…
So, Dedovshchina which is practiced in both Russia and Ukraine?
I mean yes, people literally call it the Caste Tyranny of Soviet Armed Forces. It was caused by changes in the length of conscription which led to resentment between conscripts who had to serve a longer period of service and those who were able to serve a shorter period of service. Russia has been cracking down on it since the 2008 reforms with the Military Police being established. I never heard of any verified large scale occurrences of it during the the invasion of Ukraine due to said reforms but it could be possible.
Practiced by Russian men in Russia and ukraine. Yes that’s probably it. Glad we’re on the same page, and my condolences on being part of such a people.