"Russian meat grinder continues to grind" isn't much of a headline but you can absolutely find regular articles about the state of the war. They just don't bubble up to headline news or RT. Russia does get its share of press by bombing childrens hospitals and infrastructure.

Now compare that to a country with no navy sinking a missile cruiser or downing an AWACS jet. Or, in this case, sending trucks thousands of miles into enemy territory to destroy strategic bombers. It's simply more interesting news despite how it makes you feel.

It doesn’t make me feel any particular way because I don’t care about either side of the war. I’m just pointing out something I find amusing.

War is not amusing. In this war several hundred thousands have been killed, over a million are injured for life, and many millions are terrorized by frequent random bombings of civilian targets.

Who said I found war amusing? I swear to god you guys will understand whatever serves your argument best.

Poor judgement and lack of empathy could be something worth getting looked into for real.

There was quite a lot of Ukraine is doomed stuff at the start too. By the way this isn't really 'western media.' It's Ukrainian.

Here's CNN three days into the war for example https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/russia-ukraine-mil...

If one only had listened to Russian media you wouldn't even know there is a war, just a "special operation"!

I think Putin takes joy in getting called out for this kind of hypocrisy. He copies US corruption like letting the President exceed his authority in a "special military operation" and then points at the bias.

It's not like he needed this bypass on a check on his power. He has done it to insult the US.

Maybe there's a nicer way to hear the joke is on you.. But the US has to get it s together and start checking Presidential power if it doesn't take joy in feeding Putin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeclared_war

Russia did lose its special military operation in about 5 minutes when it totally failed it's objectives. Leading to this drawn out war of attrition against a much smaller country.

Russia thought they could take Kyiv in less than a week. If you're judging this war by their own goals, then they absolutely failed.

A long protracted war complete with the destruction of their strategic airforce and Black Sea Fleet was not something they would have even conceived of being the outcome back in January 2022.

That doesn't mean Ukraine "won". But barring any kind of black swan event in their favor, Russia definitely "lost".

Ukraine never claimed a 5 minutes war, Russia did claim a 3 days special military operation though, that was a good 1000+ days ago though