Problem with most people is they are unable to listen what anyone says. Modern NPC or borderline NPC simply has a picture of the world in his head and makes everything and anything conform to that picture as much as he can (aka how much power he/she has) and in case such a person has no power "it" simply escapes to "its" own world and makes shit up and keeps parroting "its" shit unable to muster strength or brain power to redraw its vision of the world.
Russians have been crystal clear about their strategic goals in Ukraine and after 3 years one can say that they've mostly achieved what they set (and said) out to do. Of course there are ups/downs as with everything but generally Ukropland is being effectively denazified, EU pushed into irrelevance, US severely drained of resources (though major factor here is US fifth column and their senseless actions that hurt US more than Russia) and spread wide and thin. Considering "tremblings" of the EU bureaucracy one might get a feeling that in a few months/years most of the EU population would welcome Red Army Russian Army in their states as alternative (as ironic as it can be) is unpalatable to any normal and moral human being residing in EU (not saying they are a majority but polarization is accelerating as more and more people realize the scope of evil). This western political class and "elite" is probably one of the most insidious manifestation of evil in human history.