Oh come on. “The narrative” is a large part of the problem. This is not a football game where you get to pick a side depending on the speeches of the coaches.
The lack of perspective in some media is astonishing. The reporting should not stoop so low that it is affected by the narrative. One would believe that the war in Ukraine and now this one are just convoluted PR stunts, not actual people dying and suffering, given the media space given to effing narratives.