If I step back from the individual news stories, affix my foil hat atop my head and look at the coverage in general, it would seem like first we were being manipulated with emotional stories intended to make us want to support hot war with Russia. Now it looks like we they are trying to convince us that Russia is weak, so a hot war with Russia would be easy and it wouldn't cost us much, and that Biden really is a tough guy and his sanctions gesture is having great affect!
If I take my foil hat off, sometimes a spade is a spade, and maybe the little kids and women crying in Ukraine really are having their lives shattered by an evil that we could help fight. And maybe corrupt Russia has been siphoning national wealth off to a select few people for so long that their military is in disarray, low on morale, and undersupported.

Who knows. I'm trying to remain agnostic about all this. I know the truth is out there, but I don't know how one gets at it anymore short of seeing it with your own eyes.