Public opinion is deeply polarized regarding the US's role in Ukraine, characterized by strong skepticism towards military support and distrust in US foreign policy motives. While some express solidarity with Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression, a significant number express concerns about the implications of continued military actions, perceive hypocrisy in US interventions, and criticize Ukraine's leadership and strategies. Calls for peace and resolution coexist with criticisms of alleged corruption in the aid process.

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Is the U.S. providing too much or too little support to Ukraine?

Overall, 29% of Americans say the U.S. is not providing enough support to Ukraine, while 18% say it is providing too much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/14/americans-views-of-trumps-decision-making-us-policy-toward-russia-ukraine-war/

It’s also very political just for example before Trump was in office 47% of Republicans believed we were sending Ukraine too much and since Trump got into office it decreased to 30% 

35% of Democrats believed we were not sending Ukraine enough before Trump got into office and today it’s 48%

Sufficient-Win-1234

The invasion of Ukraine represents far more than just the eastern oblasts.

PressPausePlay

As not being nearly enough. The US needs to start sending hundreds, if not thousands, of additional pieces of heavy equipment. Flood the field with drones, armor, and high tech weaponry. Whatever it costs will be worth the price to end Putin's reign of terror.

Heffe3737

The US built decades of assets to stop a Russian invasion in Europe.  That invasion has come and we're leaving those assets to rot  in the Arizona desert.


Worse, that American security guarantee was instrumental in the ending of a thousand year cycle of wars that has driven most of the organized violence in human history.


So yeah.  I ain't happy.

Uhhh_what555476384

What US support?

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

KernunQc7

Honestly at this point who even cares? Europe has to remilitarise and be able to fight and win a war with Russia, assuming a hostile US that is neutral at best.

That means Europe building thousands of missiles and millions of drones, not fucking around with buying overpriced US equipment that can be turned off in an instant.

[deleted]

It's the Russian invasion of Afghanistan all over again, the US doesn't want Russia to lose it wants them to bleed until they have to give up.

This is because on a global scale the complete collapse of the Russian Federation is an apocalyptic event. You are looking at unsecured wmds being lost into the black hole of factionalism and missing records.

ResidentBackground35

Americans generally love war, so long as we don't have to do the dying.  So we are generally supportive of any amount of weapons shipped to kill putative bad guys.

Edit: Just to be clear, any opposition to sending weapons or support to Ukraine never had any substance, and Trumpists who supposedly took a "principled" position against it have largely switched their position the moment Trump switched his:

https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1956375078045704645

Discount_gentleman

People still support Ukraine government needs Russian victory

im1129

Docccc

I give Trump a month before he flips back the other way.

CaptainPrower

It's not about principles or ideology but rooting for your team to win.

madpepper

As someone currently serving in the military this is a tough one for me.

Because my question is always “at what expense” because if this turns into another Afghanistan, no fucking way. We join to fight, but it’s tough after seeing how all that happened to get motivated for it.

If it’s send more money, I ask again “at what expense” social services? Education? 

So while agree we should help others in need, but war is costly and often times carries the ultimate cost, of young Americans dying fighting a war for someone else.

It’s easy to say “send more people” on Reddit, but when you’re potentially one of those people it’s like whoa. We joined to defend our constitution, not necessarily someone else’s. There is a pause because were people with lives and families too. 

I have a 9 and 11 year old son and am not particularly keen on dying for Ukraine, especially if I can’t see a direct relation to how it jeopardizes my way of life in the country I volunteered to defend.

BSBoosk

In that case Europe should do even more as the war is in Europe. Europe's GDP is 20 times larger, population three times larger. Europe can afford to spend trillions in this existential war (their own words). Europe can stop trade with Russia and sanction all secondary countries.

If your house is on fire, you will first ask your friendly neighbours around you to do as much as they can to help you and only after - if its not enough - ask for help from a distant friend on the other side of the town.

Professional-Way1216

Aid for Ukraine is still on the Biden schedule. American spy planes and satellites give Ukraine intelligence. American Generals in Wiesbaden, Germany pick out targets for Ukraine to attack with American weapons and plan operations etc. Materially, nothing has changed.

It's been 3+ years of "sending a clear signal to the aggressor", and it's done nothing to change Putin's macro level decision-making. Yet, I constantly hear we need to pressure Russia as if it's some new, novel strategy that will surely bear fruit.

Sammonov

What else is there to do at this point short of boots on the ground. We've been trying to get Europe to support increasing sanctions on crude oil purchases especially from India but the EU doesn't want to risk their domestic stability 

johnqadamsin28

perhaps the world would be better off if countries kept to themselves. Including the USA. 

Non interventionist policies would perhaps lead to nations learning to work diplomatically. And certain regions of the world, would be much more stable. 

Also, hard disagree that Ukraine has shown it can defend itself. The vast, vast amount of EU and US weaponry and technology (and covert ops) are the only reason Putin doesn’t have an apartment in Kiev right now.

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When you say real support, I assume this means “enough for Ukraine to win” 

Does that end the war? Will Russia stop fighting then? The west has relatively infinite money for this (especially as it goes on for longer), and so the limited resource becomes people. Be under no illusion, Ukraine is running out of people eligible under military age. 

I always get insanely karma bombed for pointing anything out by the Ukranian media bots but that won’t stop me, particularly now. 

Let’s look at what form the aid could take. Cash or equipment. Let’s go with cash first:

As you saw from the flamingo missile contract, corruption of 30% of the contract value was found in backhanders. In 2022, Ukraine was ranked next to Sierra Leone in corruption. Does “we should give Sierra Leone tens of billions of dollars” sound a good idea? Do you think that has improved corruption? 

When people say Ukraine, it’s usually helpful to subdivide into 4 groups. The leadership (political), the combat forces, the “decision makers” and the “general non combat eligible population”

Everyone in that list except the decision makers wants what you want, and I’d be happy to support them. The decision makers are making more money than they’d ever have dreamed of and want the war to continue. When it ends eventually, they’ll fuck off to Switzerland with hundreds of millions or more. They have no intention of ending the war, but preserving this “almost there” stalemate. 

Only Ukraine can remove them, and only when it has to, which it will never do while the aid is flowing in freely and unconditionally. More importantly for your viewpoint, while they are still there, the war cannot end.

As an example, The ceo of Rheinmetall said it was impossible to make a factory in there because of the bureaucracy, and yet they can make a corrupt missile contract in months. Guess who didn’t pay the right people (because if you can out bureaucracy a German, who are generally very low on the corruption levels, I smell a rat). Also, insanely, ukrspecsystems has found £200M to open a factory in the U.K. so is that factory a valid target and why are we giving them £300M to own £200M of stuff in the U.K. (30% corruption discount included) 

Now what about equipment. As we saw with the much hyped but disastrous f16 programme. The problem isn’t the equipment it’s the skilled user. The “good stuff” needs a lot of training on. Like years of training. Even things like tomahawks, which you just “push a button” need a lot of us infrastructure support to use. At what point would you consider that to be America striking Russia with a Ukrainian pulling the trigger. I think the world turns an intentional blind eye to black ops things, but long range missiles smashing up Russian bases and infrastructure is probably a bit too far and you’d start seeing us bases getting bombed by drones, or Hamas getting some new explosives or similar.

Happy to go on but this is long enough

Hogglespock

Countries do what they believe is in their best self interest. 

Presidents do what they believe is in their best self-interest. 

Sometimes those things align when you have a president who cares about the interest of the country. 

As many people know Trump usually does what's best for him. 

So in this case he's doing what's best for him. 

The country of course is doing whatever it thinks is best for it. 

I'm guessing you're saying that it's in the country's best interest to help Ukraine against Russia.

I'm guessing that's probably true. 

But if trump isn't doing that then it's not in his best self-interest. 

Meaning he could be Putin's b**** like a lot of people say. 

For some reason it's not in his self-interest for Ukraine to win. Maybe we just don't know why or don't understand why.

Anyway it's a pretty complicated thing.

So if you're saying that Donald Trump should do more to help Ukraine because it's in the best interest of America then yes. 

But if you're saying that Donald Trump should do more to help Ukraine because it's in the best interest of Donald Trump then that's probably not true. He probably doesn't care unless it personally affects him. That's how business men think.

Electronic_Gene_4489

There is a war happening in the world currently, that is unfair but not necessarily unjustified. This is not a evil guy getting his rocks off at killing Ukrainians, rather or not you agree with his motives he does have some motives and they aren't based in him being just kill hungry. 

Now with that being said let's put it into place of the average American and to truly understand whats being asked of us. There are two groups of people who generally mock and hate America shooting at each other across the globe. I as an american tax payer am asked to fund a war between these two entities. They dont like or know me, I will never meet them, I will never go near their countries, their lives and mine have nothing to do with each other. 

Morally this doesnt sound like my place to put a gun in either of their hands

justsomeonesburner

Why would he? Supporting Ukraine or any other nation does not give him personally more benefit than his alignment with dictators and killers.

As a child predator, who sexually abused young girls. Who recently has his signature in a ghastly book about how his close friend Epstein and him used to fly on their private plane and molest teenagers, has much more to gain by siding with Russia. Vladimir Putin and Russia used to loan him large quantities of money for alleged laundering, and the relationship was well known.

He respects and fears Putin, who has repeatedly been reported to have 'kompromat' or compromising material for many of his misdeeds.

Donald Trump has no reason to help Ukraine, our allies, or even any other human being. Because his sole purpose in existence is to help nobody but himself. He'll kill fifty people to earn fifty dollars as long as his hands are clean. What else can one expect of a pedophile, 32-time felon, court-proven rapist?

Radioactiveglowup

Protecting democracy? Do you know how many democracies have US toppled? How many brutal dictatorships that it calls its ally? How naive are you people? In just past 25 years US has killed millions of civilians and destroyed several countries yet you people are still believe in this freedom and democracy bullshit. US government doesn’t care about Ukraine, they saw an opportunity and thought by spending a few billion dollars and not a single drop of Americans blood they can collapse the Russian society, it didn’t work now they will just leave Ukraine alone to die, like they did to Mujahidin in Afghanistan and kurds in Iraq and Syria.

Eddieazimi

Putin and Trump are both narcissists, but Trump knows who the boss is. He’s not gonna mess with Putin. He’s too scared so he just puffed up his chest and pretends.
Putin knows this darn well. 

    Putin will scorch the Earth and nuke Ukraine before it gives in &amp; Trump knows this.   he’s just trying to make his millions off the American people and get to a safety bunker before that happens

Domerdamus

I think you're wrongly assuming that what Trump says is actually what he believes. He can say he'll support them all he wants. He can say Russia is in the wrong. What his actions show is that he's willing to let Russia roll over Ukraine. 

If you want to argue that it's in America's best interest for us to provide support to Ukraine, I have no rebuttal. That's obviously the case. But if you want to argue that Trump has America's best interest at heart (lol) and therefore should provide support to Ukraine, I'd argue his actions have shown he's much more willing to appease Putin than he is to help Ukraine. He admires Putin and him limitless control over Russia. He wants the same control. Dictators (whether wannabe or actual) tend to stick together.

LighTMan913

I don’t think the US has a strong moral duty to fund Ukraine and their war effort. But he should not side with the Russians and he should sell all weapons needed to Europe and Ukraine.

It is Europe’s and especially Germany‘s mess to clean up.

But of course, by not helping Ukraine, America sides with the evil in this world. Canada, Australia and Portugal are far from Ukraine too, and they do help.

fatface4711

"Ukraine has shown it can defend itself against russian aggression"

actually it hasnt. 

it has shown that it is a great place for the west to dump their old stocks of weapons so they can extort their taxpayers into replacing them with shiny new stuff

33ITM420

I think your whole premise is incorrect.  When did trumps rhetoric indicate that he supports Ukraine or that he cares about quaint concepts like defending democracy?  I have never heard anything from him that indicates those are his priorities.

Nomadic_Yak

Please explain, why USA must spend money on Ukraine? What the point? Maybe it is better to spend tax dollars inside USA.

Russia will win this war anyway. Right now Russia spend around 5-7% of their income on the war. So russian citizen dont even notice that this war is going. For Russia it just a boarder/colonial war. Russia can continue it for 10 more years easily. 

So what the point to be on loosing side for USA?

Misimaa

Americans need to protect their investment in Israel first, they essentially built that nation.


Ukraine comes second.


Europe however should focus all their extra resources towards aiding them.

lokicramer

The Budapest agreement. We did not "guarantee" Ukraine freedom, but we did pledge support: 

"The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Congress Center [de; hu] with U.S. Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance,[3] prohibited Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations". As a result the memorandum and other agreements, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons"

We spent more in Afghanistan alone. More, accounting for inflation, in Korea, and several hundred times more in WW2. I haven't done the math for Vietnam, but we were there for a long time and shed actual American blood. 

A bring up Chechnya and Georgia to pose the question: do you believe Putin and/or his successor, will stop with Ukraine? Do you believe they will easily integrate the people is a humanitarian and living way? Do you believe that this was triggered by NATO. 

Don't quote 400 billion except to say we spent in the context of military support unless you think we should also count the non-military support for afghans, Vietnam, Korea, etc. You are mixing and matching numbers otherwise. Again, is 71 Billion way too large compared to 2,550 Billion dept of war budget??  We can't do more?? We have sent all the aid we possibly can??  

This was your argument my friend, that the US has done 50 of 52 cards and we simply cannot do more. That's complete BS. We CHOOSE not do more. Be honest. We can. We could. We CHOOSE to not send more aid. We are retiring F16's. We don't send them. We have thousands of armored vehicles sitting on a desert. We don't send them. 

To do less is a choice. That's true. But don't pretend we are choosing to help Ukraine not get steam rolled. We are NOT playing to win. We are not spending American blood even. But we could easily send more equipment. 

Have you heard any Ukrainians say "no, please don't send anymore of those Bradley, 113's, or Ambrams sitting in the desert"?  Have you????

erice2018

The only thing that might be able to change the outcome is putting boots on the ground.

If you want another Afghanistan (except worse) then that's what you can get.

Flederm4us

I call BS. This is Reddit, of course, all these people think that. You don't want an honest discussion about your opinion. You wanted upvotes. Do they feel good?

Candid_Vegetable5020

You mean more US tax payers' money should be spent on people who: are not US citizens, are not in the US, and are engaging in a conflict not started by the US?

StrikingExcitement79

Lol. He's actively helping his buddy Vladimir, the one with some nasty Kompromat on him. He's ready to throw the world under the bus to suck Putin's mushroom.

OnlyMarketing3693

No other country has done more to support the Ukraine than the US. Idk what you’re talking about. Other countries have barely done anything.

pineapplejuicing

Trump has been compromised by Putin.  They have to have some sex tape of him.  He can sure threaten Russia and follow it up by doing nada.

DistrictDue1913

If they over step to help Ukraine it might start another WW and if Russia feels backed into a corner they might just launch the nukes.

CitrusQL

Ukraine has shown it can defend itself only with the support of other nations. By itself it can't win or hold its border,

Competitive_Use4592

The US should end all aid and pull out of NATO.

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none".  TJ

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow" LP

"steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world". GW

"No nation has friends, only interests".  CdG

Savings_Art5944

I mean if we're talking "should?" He shouldn't be in a position to help *anyone* because he should be in *prison*

THREESIDEDMONSTER

I think we need a real plan if we continue to give aid. We can't just indefinitely supply Ukraine forever and hope that Russia gets bored and backs off.

FunOptimal7980

All I've gotta say is "look at Ruzzian bots down voting me"

Are you really here to change your mind? I think you are pretty entrenched emotionally into your views at this point and people realize that

TottHooligan

He will do nothing if it doesn't enrich himself in some way ...

The real lesson here is that no matter what the form of government, the success or failure of same is dependent on the character of the people involved. Trump is a sociopathic narcissist who feels no compassion, sympathy, or empathy for anyone. He makes virtues out of ignorance, stupidity, violence, and greed. He surrounds himself with irresponsible sycophants that produce dog and pony shows masquerading as cabinet meetings and press conferences, but really only serve as testaments to his vain attempts at satisfying his insatiable appetite for self-aggrandizement and praise. He talks about himself in the third person. He's a convicted felon. He breaks the law everyday. He's gone bankrupt six times. He's a serial liar. Combine all of that with his second-rate intellect and third grade vocabulary, and the results are the most empty-headed, mean-spirited, and stupid thoughts and actions imaginable. Without a doubt, he is the most flawed public figure I have ever seen in my life, a bitter, miserable old man who hasn't a single redeeming quality. Frankly, I don't understand how anyone can even stomach being in the same room with him.

Robert72051

If the US does anything more Putin will start lobbing nukes and potentially other WMDa.

Dunadan734

I don't understand why protecting an European country is Trump's responsibility? What is Europe doing? There are sooo many countries in Europe, and them pooling together resources to help Ukraine should be enough.


Also if Putin takes over Ukraine, other parts of Europe are next, their stakes are higher to not want to be more involved. 

condemned02

Yea but Putin probably has videos of trump raping kids so he can’t really do much

ChillmaticaNZ

We should pull all aid from all foreign countries and stockpile thousands of Nukes.

Intelligent_Buy_327

The US (and the UK) should stay out of another countries business for once in the last 250 years, maybe the world would be a better place then.

madafaka_jones_

Whatever the EU buys from the US to help Ukraine should be taken into consideration in there.

It's an absolute scandal that we let the US calling us freeloaders while we fund a big chunk of their military-industrial complex and it should be a priority to any European country having an ounce of self-respect and forward thinking to switch to in-house solutions as soon as possible when it comes to defence.

Euthanasia-survivor

This graph includes both promised and delivered aids. Do we have a breakdown of what is actually delivered?

TheoryOfDevolution

The problem here is that this war is being fought on our continent and a candidate member state is suffering the attack.

Providing more than the US is not enough. Not even nearly enough. We should be doubling their numbers at least.

logperf

What has Ireland done? They have a 550 billion economy that depends on banking and countries not getting invaded. 

Similar question for the Swiss and Austrians

Careless-Pin-2852

Tbf Ukraine is in Europe, not in the Americas

Playful_Copy_6293

But, but... I was told us Europoors were freeloading off the USA, and also not helping Ukraine. Why would the Yankees lie?

CataphractBunny

Umm, shouldn't a union of 27 countries which have 120M more people and are literally next door to the war be paying more to begin with?

4got_2wipe_again

Sir_roger_rabbit

Every cent of my tax spent defending freedom and democracy is a well spent cent (no, not in the american meaning of the term).

Walk with your head up Ukraine, your nation will be a prosperous democracy one day in spite of certain delusional coping mechanisms disguised as nations.

I will gladly suffer a bit to have a safe and stabile democratic order in all Europe.

python168

EU should pay more for the defense of a country in the EU. That’s just common sense. They should be paying a lot not a little more. Also sending weapons

Smooth_Expression501

Dont need graphs to know he only spits BS....

What ever we do today, it would be cheaper than what we would need to do if Ukraine fell to Russia.

Also US weapons reliance would be phased out in time. Strong-arming europe would be the worst thing the US have done.

Critical-Welder-7603

Sadly -: no one questions when different and incorrect figures are presented in US media. This is the reality of current times. 

Be is trade deficit, Ukraine support or anything else

international_swiss

Atleast Trump finally shut up about Europe contributing "very very little".

What a cunt, all talk, no action.

CaptchaSolvingRobot

Is this from EU aid packages, aids directly from European countries or both?

StuffedSnowowl

I think these numbers are not as meaningful as they appear, and USA numbers are heavily inflated. With a bunch of EU gear not reported or given symbolic values.

Axmouth

Now subtract the cumulative payments to Russia for petroleum products since the start of the war.

ClearlyCylindrical

J-96788-EU

So a 27 country bloc with more people located beside the combat zone spent about €30bn more than a single country on the other side of the planet? Wow, so impressive Europe /s.

Haunting-Detail2025

Source of the graph: Statista

Source of the data: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

that_one_retard_2

EU should be spending way more if you want to defeat Russia and have Ukraine take back all its land.

BlueZybez

Calibruh

Trump has the audacity to complain while Europe has worked to assist Ukraine. Orange Dick goes home.

Unlikely-Stage-4237

pavementchild

Or planned is the big caveat here. We really have been pathetic in actual contributions.


P.S the total aid to Russia during this time period from the EU is greater than 200 billion.

PanickyFool

So we always gave more and we still do, thanks.

Little-Extension261

This is sad. I just posted a reputable source that shows completely different numbers and you are just posting a link to the website where your graph came from.

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Jonaztl

Of course Reddit will choose increase. Reddit hate wars but love virtue signaling.

--Rick--Astley--

What is ideal is Trump stops licking Putin's rim make a deal that benefits Ukraine and punishes Russia..

Nazon6

Why are non Americans voting? Idk what's the point of asking ppl what another country should do? Like asking if America should redistribute it's 30 trillion  economy with the world... Ofc ppl will vote for what benefits them and not Americans

Wide_Set_6332

I think that every country should increase it

alexxela8_

End. Should never have gotten our support to begin with. Ukraine is of ZERO strategic interest to the United States, and it's accomplished absolutely nothing. Ukraine has absolutely no chance of winning the war. None. 

What's likely to happen is Russia continues to take even more territory. Possibly a coup within the regime to oust Zelensky as he seems willing to let Russia destroy his entire country to remain in power (he'll be voted out as soon as elections resume anyway). He'll likely be exiled.

The US could have ended the war with enough pressure on Ukraine when it started to cut a deal as soon as Putin sent out peace feelers. Could have agreed to keep Ukraine a neutral buffer state like it's always been, agreed to no NATO/EU membership. But no, they had to double down and pretend like Putin is Hitler and try to absorb the country into the West's influence. Now Putin is set to get everything he wanted and more, and now we're bitter enemies for funding a sleazy military campaign against them. 

How'd that turn out?

ConundrumBum

maintain funds to ukraine, but do we really need the military to occupy germany/italy/uk/poland/turkey?

lowchain3072

End support. It's the EU's job to support Ukraine.

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