Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) took a swipe at President Trump this week by noting that seven in 10 Individuals advised a current survey they blame Russia for the continued warfare in Ukraine.
“Overwhelmingly, Americans know who is at fault. Moral clarity is important,” Bacon wrote on X Thursday morning.
The Reuters/Ipsos ballot confirmed 70% of Individuals disagreed with the assertion “Ukraine is more to blame for starting the war,” with solely 7% saying they agreed.
Greater than three-fifths of Republicans (62%) additionally stated they rejected the concept, in comparison with 81% of Democrats.
Bacon has been one of the outspoken Home Republican supporters of Ukraine as Trump tries to dealer a cease-fire between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump, 78, has referred to as Zelensky, 47, a “dictator” and stated final month Ukraine “should never have started” warfare with Russia — regardless of Moscow invading Ukraine in February of 2022.
On Friday, Bacon made a pointed reference on X to Russian brokers poisoning then-Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko greater than twenty years in the past.
“Russia tired [sic] to assassinate the Ukrainian President in 2004 using poison. He survived but was scarred. The war in Ukraine didn’t start in 2022,” the Nebraskan wrote.
On Wednesday, Bacon wrote: “Real Republicans know that Putin’s Russia hates the West and freedom. We also know that Ukraine wants democracy, free markets and rule of law. We stand with right vs evil. Reagan, Churchill, Eisenhower… that is our legacy. I won’t walk away from it.”
“I was not only responding to his comment that Ukraine was to blame, but also others who share those sentiments that I hear from frequently,” Bacon advised The Submit Friday.
“I want a just peace but we should have moral clarity on who is the invader and who is the victim.”
Trump had a significant rift with Zelensky on the White Home Feb. 28 and has but to completely restore relations with Ukraine.
Zelensky got here to Washington to signal a mineral cope with the US, meaning to create a joint mineral fund that might collect revenue for each international locations and supply an financial “security guarantee” for Kyiv.
Many congressional Republicans sided with Trump over kicking Zelensky out of the White Home with no deal, arguing that the president was defending American pursuits.
However Bacon, in response to the blowup, stated it marked “a bad day for America’s foreign policy. Ukraine wants independence, free markets and rule of law. It wants to be part of the West. Russia hates us and our Western values. We should be clear that we stand for freedom.”
The Reuters/Ipsos ballot Bacon cited discovered Individuals cut up on the mineral thought, with 50% disagreeing with the assertion “the US should get a share of Ukraine’s minerals” — together with 75% of Democrats — and solely 46% agreeing, together with 73% of Republicans.
Trump has not referred to as Putin a dictator, however did threaten to impose sanctions on Russia on Friday if the nation didn’t cease hitting Ukraine with missiles and didn’t “get to the table right now” to seek out peace.
The Reuters/Ipsos ballot surveyed 1,174 US adults March 3-4, 2025. The margin of error was plus-or-minus 3% for all adults and plus-or-minus 5% for all different teams.
