Plus, social media is actually doing us a lot of good in this situation. War is worse than hell and most of the population really doesn’t want it, and new forms of media that both expose us to more of the reality of war and allow us to voice our dissent moves the Overton window a lot.

So we’ve had a few dozen casualties and a couple planes shot down so far. This could realistically be expected out of a conflict this size, and until recently it would have been a story in a newspaper and not much else. But the internet allows all of us to scrutinize and push back on each casualty in real time, and I think that’s a good thing.