Most Americans do support Israel and are very opposed to Putin and Russia.
Check the polls.
Which is why it's suspicious that JD Vance and Trump seem so afraid to upset Putin.
The idea that Russsia could have compromising information on one or both of them is entirely plausible. It's a way politicians have been controlled for literally thousands of years. J. Edgar Hoover controlled every US president for fifty years with this one simple trick.
[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/740568401/Cbsnews-20240609-S.... Question No 52.
[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-times-us-has-used-veto...
Yes, the UN has attempted many more resolutions against Israel than against China for its treatment of millions of Uyghurs, North Korea for enslaving its entire population, Russia for murdering tens of thousands, Iran for its direct terrorism, and the list goes on. Which is not exactly the ethical high ground you seem to think it is.
Whataboutism.
When China starts bombing hospitals, let us know.
China sterilizing and and enslaving a million Uyghurs isn't bad enough to warrant your condemnation?
We have different values.
Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza
Approval has dropped from 50% to 36% since November
Americans aren’t wiling to invest in what it would take to win the war. So Trump has to break Zelensky’s spirit so there can be a settlement.
Europe cannot let Putin win. It’s obvious that Poland or the Baltics would be next, and the further they let Putin go the worse it gets.
So instead, the US will either be neutral or supporting Russia. Not a great outcome for anyone except Russia.
Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union since 1917. Was it hurting America to not have Ukraine as an “ally” that whole time? Clearly not!
It does not matter how we ended up here, but we have an obligation to select for the least bad outcome.
It's not understandable to support Russia and say things like Ukraine started the war. That's just pure ignorant bullshit.
The US populace can stick its head in the sand & say the rest of the world doesn't need them, but what if a superpower starts snapping up that rest of the world?
Poland would wipe the floor with Russia.
USA does not have to do that, USA want to do that. They could stay away, they could support Ukraine. USA choice however was to support Russia.
To me, at least, it's pretty clear that the negotiations are not in line with the will of the American populace as territorial concessions, resource concessions, no security guarantees and no multi-lateral opposition force to Russian expansionism have seemed like priorities to the current administration.
But I'd question your assumption that Americans aren't willing to invest what it would take to win the war (depending on what a victory entails) and instead I'd suggest that this assumption needs a bit more research. I for one am very happy to see our tax dollars be used to support Ukraine, primarily because I think it's an investment in preventing a more expensive war in the future. It's unfortunate because we are basically just incurring a cost we didn't want to incur, but at the end of the day this is just the hand we're dealt with.
A more neutral and far more informative and useful poll is YouGov-Economist poll. Their methodology is based on app polling instead of phone polling. They subdivide their responses based on demographics, and they poll every week, often repeating the same questions to gauge trends for very detailed analysis.
Wish more pollsters were like YouGov.