Depends who you ask:
Russia: NATO is at war with us. We're not at war with anyone cause it's a special military operation
Everyone else: Russia and Ukraine are at war
Russia: NATO is at war with us. We're not at war with anyone cause it's a special military operation
Everyone else: Russia and Ukraine are at war
It is not just Russia VS Ukraine.
All of this is irrelevant.
> It is not just Russia VS Ukraine.
Yes. Yes it is. Russian soldiers are shooting at Ukrainian soldiers, and Ukrainian soldiers are shooting at Russian soldiers. That's it. No NATO soldiers are shooting at or being shot at by anyone. Because NATO is not a party in this war. Russia and Ukraine are.
This is a gross oversimplification given that most soldiers don't do any shooting at all.
Iran and North Korea help Russia with military supplies, and there is no question if Ukraine is at war with them.
Countries tend to help their friends during war.
Of course there is a question. The whole point is that "at war" isn't a binary state, hence "who is doing the shooting" being a gross oversimplification.
Well, you will hear some opinion, based on some perspective. Almost always it is not whole truth, but a subset of facts.
But there is so much more at play.
What bothers me is how western news manipulative and no one really notice. News giving everyone a subset of facts, while omitting others, not painting the entire truth. They are not lying, but at the same time manipulate opinion of a large population.
It is pretty obvious our media (at least in France) serve some agenda when you look at their finances. The rich guys that detain theses medias know how to make money. Meaning it is worth keeping these medias despite what it cost them each year.
And why would you keep an unprofitable business ? Unless it serves them in another manner...
Le Monde, the most popular newspaper, which is billionaire owned is profitable. Le Figaro, owned by Dassault (industrial group), second best, is also profitable.
TF1, most popular private TV news network, owned by Bouygues (industrial group), is also profitable. M6, second best (among the private ones), is also profitable.
Le Canard enchaîné and Mediapart, two of the most hard hitting investigative medias out there, are independent.
All of this is easily found public information, which conflicts with the picture you're trying to paint. Of course there are rich people pushing their agenda with media (Bolloré pushed the far-right Zemmour really hard), but it's not the norm and it's false to say that French media is kept afloat by rich people's money to push an agenda when they're all profitable.
We agonize over failures and freely discuss tactics and events, report explicitly and react to horrors occurring, sometimes so much that we get a bit desensitized over time.
It could be argued that we sometimes omit too little. Unlike in Russia now where telling the truth can get you a criminal record and land you in jail.