Our so called leaders have been launching lies at us for so long and so bold they believe their own BS. They can lie to their own people without direct blowback. Telling lies to someone who can blowback is a whole other matter.
Of course Ukraine will lose!
US foreign policy is to spend as much money on the military industrial complex as possible while generating a blizzard of propaganda as cover.
Once you “get” that, everything starts to make sense.