That’s how it’s always victories for the guys they like. They claim the other side had a never stated goal without evidence, often a wildly unrealistic one, and because they didn’t achieve the thing they never said they tried to achieve, they declare victory. Hezbollah failed to completely collapse Israel, so they were defeated! Russia didn’t completely annex Ukraine, and it doesn’t look like he’s going to, so Putin is losing!
That’s how it’s always victories for the guys they like. They claim the other side had a never stated goal without evidence, often a wildly unrealistic one, and because they didn’t achieve the thing they never said they tried to achieve, they declare victory. Hezbollah failed to completely collapse Israel, so they were defeated! Russia didn’t completely annex Ukraine, and it doesn’t look like he’s going to, so Putin is losing!