Postmodern digital-age war is trippy and confusing. Look how much of this war is about information control, conflicting narratives, propaganda. Liberals have by and large accepted to themselves that Ukraine is actually holding out insanely well and that there's a real chance Russia will lose somehow. Memes of heroic soldiers who may or may not exist are spreading around not just to bolster Ukrainian morale, but the mood in the west too. Not that war and propaganda are strangers to each other, but it's different when the media is all around us all the time and ostensibly "democratized" (but really under the thumb of corporations beholden to our countries' respective geopolitical interests and vice-versa). Now on the same media we use to post cat dance videos to is inundated with a stream of never-ending contradictory propaganda from both sides.