Should Republicans retake control of one or both houses of Congress in the midterm elections, the implications for U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine could be profound.
in September found that 32% of Republican voters said the U.S. is providing too much aid to Kyiv, 23 points higher than when the same question was asked in March.
Yet if Ukraine continues to see military gains on the ground against Russia, that reluctance might become a trickier political position. “Given that this populist group on the right is going to be larger and perhaps part of the majority, I think it would be hard to expand military aid,” Cancian added. “The one place where aid is vulnerable is not the military aid but the economic aid.”been insisting to Republicans in Washington that aid must continue to go beyond military assistance to include economic support.
“In terms of the infrastructure, by virtue of the electrical grid being impacted, we are seeing impacts in terms of water supply systems, water treatment, things like that, which is affecting access to water among the civilian population,” a senior Pentagon official told reporters on Monday.
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