“ Why is our media far more critical compared to Ukraine in how the war is executed, if we are achieving our goals, the collateral damage, why is suddenly every casualty or loss on our side highlighted?”
Because the potential for catastrophic harm to the US is 100X greater in Iran than in Ukraine.
Russia is a nuclear power with 4,400 - 5,400 warheads, 24 TIMES the economy of Iran, about 5 times the manufacturing, 1.5 times the population...
Russia has forces abroad in areas where we are operating and could easily arm bad actors (proxy games) in a way that directly screws us over (MANPADS to some of the shia militia in Iraq for example).
Iran is a regional threat and their repertoire of threat systems is a drone and ballistic missile with a conventional warhead. That’s about it.
What are you talking about?
That isn’t true.