The majority of Americans support to sanction Russia’s business partners as a way to press Moscow to put an end to their war in Ukraine, according to a Reuters survey.
The survey, carried out for three days and completed on Sunday, showed that 62% of respondents support sanctioning the commercial partners of Russia, a strategy that the US president, Donald Trump, has partially adopted and threatened to expand to include China.
Only 13% said they do not agree to impose sanctions, while 24% said they do not know about the subject.
Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the greatest conflict in Europe since World War II. More than one million people have died or results in both sides, including thousands of civilians, mostly Ukrainians, according to analysts.
In recent weeks, Trump has carried out intense diplomatic activity, meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska, although so far he has not managed to stop the conflict, an objective that had promised to achieve since his first day in office.
Trump, who according to reports has expressed his desire to obtain a Nobel Peace Prize, has already imposed secondary sanctions in the form of a 25% tariff against India for continuing to buy Russian oil, the main source of financing of the Kremlin in the war against Ukraine.
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The president has also threatened to impose strong tariffs on China – the largest Russian oil buyer – as well as Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and other countries that trade with Moscow, in order to intensify the pressure so that Russia accepts a high fire.
According to the survey, 76% of Trump’s republicans support Russia’s business partners as a measure to stop war, while among Democrats the support reaches a modest majority of 58%.
On the other hand, 20% of the Democrats said they do not agree with imposing sanctions, backed by only 5% of the Republicans.
The survey compiled the responses of 1,022 American adults throughout the country and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points for the total of respondents. For Republicans and Democrats, the margin was 6 points.
With Reuters information
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