Top-secret intelligence assessments that emerged in the leaks predicted Ukraine’s failure to make substantial gains in its counteroffensive — a multibillion-dollar effort that cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives. The bleak forecast provided a sharp contrast to Washington’s optimistic messaging on the war, and it hurt Ukraine’s relationship with its chief backer, the U.S. government.
They're willing to lie to your face, time and time again, about Russia and Ukraine, and somehow people still just mindlessly lap it up after almost two full years of it.
You left out the part about Russia losing the Battle of the Black Sea to a country without a navy.