Emma Ashford is a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. She says support for Ukraine has been through the roof in most countries that you would consider part of the Western block. In some Asian allies too, like Japan and South Korea, support was always a little softer because those were more worried about food supplies and fuel. But initially, at least in the West, we saw just a massive wave of support for the Ukrainians.
The next Congress could be a whole lot less willing to keep spending billions on aid to Ukraine. It’s time to talk about how this war could end.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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