The guardian is Western media. You posted a link to an article which undermines your thesis. All wars have significant issues with fraud. If you think this is

The guardian is Western media. You posted a link to an article which undermines your thesis. All wars have significant issues with fraud. If you think this is worse than any other consider the war budget. Economics says that Ukraine is not doing as badly as you project. Their supply chains are robust. Russia on the other hand is a basket case. I agree victory is illusive, but to cast the war as lost, is I think hyperbole. The USA withdrawal is not insignificant and it can be said this is a war by proxy between nuclear superpowers. Something Putin is fond of saying. European views on this differ. The anti war sentiment rather diluted out. There's a lot of global warfare, Putin has a hand in much of it. Perhaps when we have one war to fight, anti war left sentiment can coalesce but right now it has it's hands full in the middle east.