Before I go any further I want to state that I am antiwar (this is for those that may be visiting for the first time) and I have been since 1970….I do not support these petty wars of expansion and make no mistake that is exactly what it is.

The title is a question that has been asked of Americans…..Are you willing to die for other countries?

Now the answer is in….

A July poll shows that a majority of the American public does not support sending U.S. troops to defend Taiwan or Ukraine, sentiment that lines up with findings from other recent surveys on these heated subjects, which suggests that Americans appear to be warming to restraint and non-interventionism in international affairs.

Indeed, another poll, conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in February found that a majority of Americans (56%) do not believe that the United States should pick a side in Israel’s war on Gaza. And a more recent survey from Council this month found that just four in ten support the United States sending troops to defend Israel if attacked by its neighbors.

Similarly, Americans’ suspicions of foreign intervention were uncovered in a recent YouGov poll, which found that 79% said that they only support intervention if the U.S. were directly threatened (that number significantly dropped to 49% if an ally were attacked). In the same study, the only recent war that a majority of Americans viewed as justified was World War II.

Despite these findings, Washington continues to push forward with fanning the flames of war around the world, whether being slow to work toward peace settlements in Ukraine and Gaza, stoking conflict with China, or throwing gargantuan amounts of money, unnecessarily, at the Pentagon and thus, the weapons industry.

“The general through line of the polling data is there is a disconnect between official U.S foreign policy and the preferred policies of the American people,” Tucker Kass, spokesman at Defense Priorities which conducted the July survey, told Responsible Statecraft concerning their findings. “The policy coming out of D.C. is interventionist but the American people, at least based on the answers we received, support a more judicious, more discerning policy that would frankly be wiser than current policy.”

The Defense Priorities poll also found that just 22% of those surveyed support the United States defending Ukraine. Forty-six percent opposed while 32% were neutral. Thirty percent said they support America militarily defending Taiwan against China, while 37% opposed and 33% were neutral. Additionally, a plurality of Americans surveyed, 44%, agreed that avoiding war with China is more important than Taiwan’s autonomy.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/america-polling-interventionism/

Please don’t get me wrong….yes the US has the right to defend itself when attacked….but we do not have the right to finance every little mash up on the horizon. 

That is money wasted.

So I am glad to see that Americans are starting to see the folly of intervention….but sadly that does not make a difference for us peasants do not have the monetary clout to make our wishes into reality.

The Congress, who is suppose to be the sole entity to intervene and is a corrupt entity that will do what the money tells them to do.

And that is the truth of it.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”