'Ceremonial' as in there seem to be arbitrary unwritten agreements. Not that it is not bloody with war crimes.

And people in those places have internet so I very much did tell them. I guess you mean walking the street doing it, and no, I would not do that. That would be rather masochistic.

I got this theory that the bronze age collapse was due to some tribe abandoning some sort of ceremonial warfare, which spread.

The war on Gaza would be a good example of a war with no "ceremonies".

Are they trying to be cartoon villains? Because that's what a cliched villain with no actual personality does. Do stuff with children's cancer [anything].

But yes, just because people can get weirdly used to a war, particularly the news, doesn't mean that it's not happening or bad or intense.

even more so, in this case, they are getting the Russian influenced version of what the war is like... "it's just a border dispute"

in reality it is the largest war in Europe since WW2

The war is evil and stupid and we all know who is to blame.

However, missiles are not raining down "daily" on Kyiv, and certainly not on Lviv (which has seen relatively few missile strikes in fact).

Or anywhere else, except places very close to the front.

Are they trying to be cartoon villains?

Believe it or not they imagine themselves to be worldly statesmen, and are doing what they are doing as means of finally achieving Augenhöhe (eye-to-eye respect) from their Western counterparts, in fact. "They get to bomb hospitals by mistake or otherwise in the course of their military adventures, so why can't we?" is their basic line of reasoning.