Elections 2020: how Ukrainians in the USA support Trump and Biden

Like other Americans, immigrants from Ukraine to the United States differ in their political preferences. There are Republicans among them, there are also Democrats, writes "Voice of America".

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Orest Deychakovsky is a former employee of the American Congress; today he is one of the leaders of the organization “Americans of Ukrainian Origin for Biden,” registered in June. Orestes says that no leader in American history has paid as much attention to Ukraine as Joe Biden.

“Biden traveled to Ukraine six times and communicated a lot with President Poroshenko. In 2015 or 2016, he said that he communicates more with Poroshenko than with his own wife,” Deychakovsky noted.

But the Obama-Biden administration did not give Ukraine what it needed most at the time, said Yaroslav Martynyuk, a writer, former Radio Liberty researcher and member of the new organization Ukrainians for the Re-Election of Donald Trump.

“The Trump administration provided Ukraine with 360 Javelin anti-tank missiles, as well as 47 launchers,” Martynyuk said. “And it was precisely because of the presence of lethal weapons in Ukraine that Putin did not go further.”

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“In the Obama administration, Biden was not only a supporter of the provision of lethal weapons, but also a tough policy of confrontation with Russia,” Deychakovsky clarified. “And he oversaw efforts to help Ukraine’s economy, including loan guarantees, assistance in working to meet Ukraine’s energy needs. He was an extremely strong proponent of the fight against corruption. And he recently stated that if elected he would increase lethal and other assistance to Ukraine«.

The Trump administration also provided assistance to Ukraine, Martynyuk notes. In particular, in efforts to stop the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

“This means that Russia is no longer able to supply gas to Germany and other countries and cannot use this as a blackmail mechanism,” argues Martynyuk. “In addition, completion of this pipeline would deprive Ukraine of billions of dollars in revenue. Look again at the Obama-Biden administration. They oversaw the construction of these pipelines and did not take any serious steps to stop it.”

“Biden will confront Putin. You won’t see the press conferences we saw in Helsinki two years ago,” says Deychakovsky. — Joe Biden will not say, Russia, we want you to return to the G2003. While still a senator, he supported Ukrainian initiatives. In XNUMX, we adopted a resolution where for the first time we directly called the Holodomor genocide. And Biden has been one of the strongest supporters of this initiative.”

Also in the Senate, Biden was one of the leaders of NATO expansion, and, unlike Trump, Deychakovsky says, he understands the importance of this organization and international strategic alliances in general.

“Trump has made NATO stronger,” Martynyuk replies. But international organizations and agreements do not work, says a supporter of the American president.

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“Multilateralism doesn’t work because it reduces everything to the lowest common denominator,” Martynyuk said. “The Trump administration took a very uncompromising, I would say undiplomatic, position regarding its NATO allies who were not doing their share. And suddenly NATO had an additional almost 200 billion dollars.”

The election results do not contain information on the ethnic origin of the voters. Therefore, it is impossible to accurately measure the popularity of this or that candidate among Ukrainians in the United States. But it is already obvious that neither Democrats nor Republicans can automatically consider Ukrainians in the United States as their electorate. You will have to fight for their votes.

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