People forget how large the USA is, and how this affects the political system. Running for President of the USA means appealing to hundreds of millions of people, convincing them that you are their best option; which means giving as many people as possible (who are open to voting for you) what they want, enough so that they’ll vote for you. Remember, just because we have a form of government that gives people a vote, that doesn’t make it a democracy — Trump’s policies, therefore, are not totally representative of the will of American people. Also, no one voted for Trump or Kamala because of their respective stance on Ukraine. Trump won because he promised to give a large swath of conservatives, single-issue-voters and moderates the domestic policies they wanted — the previous administration under Biden wasn’t good on domestic issues, which is how the democrats handed Trump victory. I’m not saying Trump is great for America, but he checked the policies boxes that most voters wanted, including things I wanted even though I wrote in Ron Paul. Again, hardly any American voted with Ukraine on their mind, because of course people care mostly about domestic policies, as they should.
If the USA were actually a democracy — a direct democracy — its foreign policy would look like quite different. It would probably have been a neutral country that would have never even entered the World Wars, let alone forming NATO.
It’s easy for Americans to get behind cutting support for Ukraine when they’re told that it’s so expensive, a waste of their tax money and “we need to reduce the deficit.” Most Americans are normies that don’t really care about foreign policy and the long term effects of bad foreign policy decisions — they aren’t thinking about Russia being a threat to America in 50 years. They don’t know how much damage Russian propaganda has done to America!
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