> Idk about the propaganda, but the US is really really bad at waging war.
Can you name any other country who can come even close to the US's (where they have substantial causal involvement) body count in the last few decades?
And for the propaganda part: consider the US public's opinion on the righteousness of their behavior on the world stage, or the manner in which (from an abstract perspective) they evaluate/perceive the Russian/Ukraine conflict compared to when the US is the aggressor.