{"id":2008,"date":"2026-05-04T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/forever-war-in-ukraine-loses-majority-support\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:58:00","slug":"forever-war-in-ukraine-loses-majority-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/forever-war-in-ukraine-loses-majority-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever war in Ukraine loses majority support"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div class=\"captioned-image-container\"><figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Ex-v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85dc227c-8c11-4059-9164-2b6194e34f41_1200x742.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\"><div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!Ex-v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85dc227c-8c11-4059-9164-2b6194e34f41_1200x742.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"742\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/85dc227c-8c11-4059-9164-2b6194e34f41_1200x742.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:742,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"><div class=\"image-link-expand\"><div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image\"><title><\/title><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image\"><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p>For the first time since Russia&#8217;s invasion in 2022, support for fighting &#8220;as long as necessary&#8221; has slipped below 50% in Ukraine according to recent polling from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.<\/p><p>Only 48% of respondents now support indefinite war, according to KIIS. A third of Ukrainians now say they only support another year or less of fighting, with an additional 19% expressing ambivalence.<\/p><p>These numbers mark an important shift in public opinion. Last August, Gallup reported that Ukrainian belief that they <em>should <\/em>&#8220;continue fighting until [they] win the war&#8221; had reached a low of 24% &#8212; yet 62% insisted that they <em>could <\/em>continue fighting indefinitely. This new drop is a more direct measure of popular morale, and suggests that the Ukrainian stance towards the war may be moving from pessimism to exhaustion.<\/p>\n      <p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplesline.org\/p\/forever-war-in-ukraine-loses-majority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              Read more\n          <\/a>\n      <\/p>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplesline.org\/p\/forever-war-in-ukraine-loses-majority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  www.peoplesline.org<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since Russia&#8217;s invasion in 2022, support for fighting &#8220;as long as necessary&#8221; has slipped below 50% in Ukraine according to recent polling from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.Only 48% of respondents now support indefinite war, according to KIIS. A third of Ukrainians now say they only support another year or less of fighting, with an&hellip;","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}