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I think it is as simple as "The movie ends when the bad guys are defeated." Movies don't show the horrible aftermath of a war, they just show a "victory" so they don't actually have any analysis of this, because they don't really think about it at all. I think it ties into the "war as entertainment" thing you mentioned.
There's a reason so much of the propaganda around this war talks about Harry Potters, Voldemorts and Darth Vaders. It's because they are trying to fictionalise reality so their audience disassociates from the actual damage. The US has had a hard time selling ongoing conflicts to the public since Vietnam, as most people are horrified by death and destruction. But by making it "like the movies" it makes people disconnect, it makes them treat losses like the random extras in a movie, so no matter how much lasting suffering the war causes it doesn't matter, because it never matters in the movies.