What Americans Think About Going To War
The Byron York Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is what Americans think |
| 0:17.8 | about the war in Ukraine and very specifically what they think about the United States going |
| 0:23.2 | to war in Ukraine. |
| 0:25.5 | With the Russian invasion of Ukraine now in its second week, it's possible to get a |
| 0:31.9 | little better glimpse of what Americans think about the war and especially what they |
| 0:36.4 | think about what the U.S. role, if any, should be in the war. |
| 0:41.2 | The bottom line is Americans still oppose the United States going to war with Russia. |
| 0:47.4 | That's kind of a fundamental bottom line conclusion still oppose the U.S. going to war. |
| 0:52.7 | With Russia, a recent economist you go of poll asked whether it was a very straightforward |
| 0:58.2 | question. |
| 0:59.2 | Would it be a good idea or a bad idea to send American soldiers to Ukraine to fight Russian |
| 1:05.1 | soldiers? |
| 1:06.1 | Hard to get clearer than that. |
| 1:08.6 | Just 19% of those who were surveyed thought it would be a good idea. |
| 1:13.4 | 54% thought it was a bad idea and 28% were not sure, 28% a pretty big number which reflects |
| 1:21.6 | a lot of public confusion entirely understandable confusion about the war. |
| 1:27.6 | So anyway, the question, would it be a good idea or a bad idea to send American soldiers |
| 1:32.5 | to Ukraine to fight Russian soldiers? |
| 1:35.4 | 19%. |
| 1:36.4 | That's a good idea. |
| 1:37.4 | Okay. |
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