that white house officials are playing down ukraine's battlefield losses. former cia analysts, john kieriyaki, who says the u. s. has a long history of hiding the true situation on the ground journey is own conflict. it's always been us military policy to, to make the situation on the ground look more positive than it is. we did this throughout the warrant afghan. stan, certainly we did this in iraq. we did it in, in vietnam. famously, the neoconservatives of the republican party used to be the one that wanted to jump into every international conflict. they saw the reason why you have to keep this positive, at least on the us side, is because when you are able to show progress, when you're able to show promise, it makes it that much easier to go to congress and get billions and billions of dollars in additional, a recent poll found that 44 percent of americans have an unfavorable opinion of biden's handling of the conflict and ukraine with the majority wanting the government to stick to domestic problems instead of getting involved in military activity abroad. or john kerry aku again, says th