I don’t speak for anyone else regarding the Ukraine war. When this war started I originally favored the Ukrainian side.

Frankly, now is the time for hyperbole. The Ukrainians are still critically short of men. That has been true for years and keeps getting worse. If I was trying to be persuasive maybe I would be more circumspect but as I mentioned I don’t really care right now.

If the Ukrainians really had any chance of winning, they would not bother with media counter-offensives, wunderwaffen obsession, or absurd inflation of Russian casualties.

It definitely is not whataboutism, it’s literal cause and effect. Doing years of ethnic cleansing is causus belli.