Ukraine is still Ukraine after nearly two years of genocidal invasion by the biggest country in the world. Russia has lost its Super Power status. Forever.
The goal of all the provocation of Russia a prelude to dealing with China but Russia and China fully understand what is going on and are responding.
I guess the real war is all this sensational propaganda to sell China and Russia as failures, Iran and North Korea as losers and so on.
Humanity is divorced from reality it seeks a feel-good fantasy world where I’m OK and my enemies real or imagined are inferior to me.