I'm definitely not claiming it's not a big deal rather pointing out that to the imperial core it is the only big deal. That is to say Russian/Chinese/Iranian/etc failures are painted as sure signs of their incompetence or failure while any such failures, or often even larger ones, on the side of "the good guys" are treated as totally inconsequential.

Which is as you say part of making everything worse. the fighting will continue. If attacks on Russia continue attacks on Ukraine will continue and so on. And of course those who suffer will be the workers who can't just fly away in their jets.