Doubt the Russian ship has undergone the extensive PM and retrofitting the U.S. carrier fleet does. The point is that this attack is not some strategic victory that will affect the outcome of the war.
No doubt the ship was targeted for propaganda value. Ukraine needs some token victory to keep the money flowing. The vaunted counteroffensive was a dismal failure.
” The point is that this attack is not some strategic victory that will affect the outcome of the war.”
Well, alone it won’t.
“No doubt the ship was targeted for propaganda value.”
Maybe; maybe not. But to use the fact of its destruction for propaganda is to be expected; as this war is all about propaganda, from both sides.