In the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, the verifiable artifact was the destruction of the twin towers. The rest was accusation and conjecture, which was quite flimsy.

The current situation is quite different. There is plenty of verified evidence that Russia is attacking Ukraine. No reasonable voices are disputing the situation, and we have direct, primary, difficult to fake evidence confirming that this is what has happened.

I would say that this feels more like Kuwait than the so-called war on terror, having lived through all three (although I was quite young during Kuwait.