It is now a war of attrition, they say, with each side trying to exhaust the other by inflicting maximum losses, hoping to break the enemy’s capacity and will to continue the war.
Because it wasn’t a war of attrition from the beginning? But even then, it’s one Ukraine is still losing.
It’d actually be interesting to look into the specifics of how the western media has maintained the narrative that ukraine has been a victim of the evil and powerful Russians while also on the verge of victory versus those same weak Russian orc hordes, needing just a little more aid, for so long without more people catching on.
Similarly for Israels genocide.
Sort of an updated inventing reality
It’s easy:
- Start with a conflict where most people don’t know the specifics
- Establish that the State Department side of the conflict is The Right Side To Be On with wall-to-wall favorable reporting
- Bury negative stories where few look, if you run them at all
- Let the conflict simmer indefinitely
After the last step, most people still don’t know the specifics of the situation because you never really informed them and they have other priorities than a war far away that they perceive they have no effect on. They see a story every month or so about another arbitrarily large amount of money getting sent overseas and it just blends into the background; they’ve seen that story countless times about many countries.
