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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 11:35 AM Feb 2017

Poll: Majority Of Americans Are Worried About War

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 22, 2017, 10:31 AM EDT

Americans are worried that the United States will become engaged in a major war in the next four years, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Wednesday.

Thirty-six percent of Americans, according to the poll, would say they are “very worried” that the United States will become engaged in a major war in the next four years. Thirty percent were somewhat worried, 25 percent were not too worried, 8 percent were not at all worried and 2 percent had no answer.

However, Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a multinational military alliance of which the Trump administration has been critical. Eighty percent of respondents said NATO membership was good for the United States, while only 15 percent said it was bad for the country. Five percent had no answer.

On Russia, whose military might has been checked by NATO in the past, Americans are slightly more divided. Seven percent of Americans would call Russia an ally, 28 percent would describe it as “friendly but not an ally,” 43 percent would call it “unfriendly,” and 18 percent would call it an “enemy.” Four percent had no answer.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nbc-news-survey-monkey-poll-war-terrorism

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Poll: Majority Of Americans Are Worried About War (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
But but but... nycbos Feb 2017 #1
That's what you get when you vote republican. Initech Feb 2017 #2
Four years??? atreides1 Feb 2017 #3
The first people who should fight in a war should be chump supporters kimbutgar Feb 2017 #4
Yes including his sons. n/t Penn Voter Feb 2017 #5
That will more than likely happen... Wuddles440 Feb 2017 #6
66% worry about war. And another 25% "aren't too," hmmm.... Hortensis Feb 2017 #7

Initech

(100,060 posts)
2. That's what you get when you vote republican.
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 11:41 AM
Feb 2017

And especially a thin skinned megalomaniac who throws temper tantrums on an hourly basis.

kimbutgar

(21,111 posts)
4. The first people who should fight in a war should be chump supporters
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 12:32 PM
Feb 2017

You stand by him, then fight his G-d war. Because you know if one of chumps properties are bombed he will declare war on that country. You love chump then fight his war.

Wuddles440

(1,121 posts)
6. That will more than likely happen...
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 01:09 PM
Feb 2017

because it's usually the poorly educated and economically disadvantaged that are used as cannon fodder for the warmongers and most of those probably were supporters of Comrade Twitler.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. 66% worry about war. And another 25% "aren't too," hmmm....
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 01:17 PM
Feb 2017

Wonder how many of those are tactically dissembling in support of their leader.

Of course many are probably in acceptance of a final war. Pew says 30M Americans expect to fly up in the sky any time. Somebody should clue them in that it could just be plain old WWIII instead, no Rapture, leave them to wonder what WMD would leave of America the Beautiful and if anyone they cared about would still be living.

Interesting in any case that only 8% are "not at all worried," when usually a good 15% can be counted on for total partisan idiocy no matter the issue.

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