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Polls claimimg massive American support for money & weapons to Ukraine not legit

Dave_Anderson

The media is again trotting out polls claming overwhelming American support for the War against Russia and endless money and weapons being sent to Ukraine. They also claim about three quarters of the population still view Zelinsky positively. While I question the accuracy of these polls, it really isn't legitimate to ask people's opinion on a subject in which they have only heard one-sided massivey biased media coverage over and over for years.

Americans are basically prevented from hearing the Russian perspective on this conflict at all. Anyone who simply tries to give the Russian side of the argument or perspective is censored, banned, or restricted on most social media and mainstream media never gives the Russian perspective at all. All most Americans hear is that "Russia is a dictatorship ruled by an evil dictator who attacked a neighboring country out of the blue in 2022 for no reason other than wanting to steal land and take it over to me mean and murder and brutalize people and crush their freedom and capitalist way of life. Zelinsky is a heroic leader standing up valiantly to this evil against all odds and Ukraine is winning but needs more weapons and money to finish the fight. Russia has literally no valid interests or arguments over Ukraine, Donbas, or any legitimate beef with the "west." Anyone who says they do is a propagandist for the Kremlin or even a Russian bot. Russia has committed terrible atrocities while Ukraine has not. Russia engages in human wave attacks [despite no evidence of this]..." Literally on and on and on and on.

Most Americans have no reason to question any of this. Why would they when this is the only message or perspective they get and efforts are made to prevent them from even hearing the other side. SO HOW CAN A POLL HAVE LEGITIMACY IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES?

Without hearing all sides and being allowed to ponder them and conclude on one's own which makes the most sense any opinion is just regurgitating what one has only been allowed to hear.

BTW, that narrative I repeated above that most Americans believe by default is so utterly and completely false and even ass backwards, its actually ludicrous but if thats all you hear over and over sadly you will probably believe it.