Before the gathered nations of the world, Ukraine's president this week reframed a war many have grown accustomed to watching from a distance — not as a regional tragedy, but as a force already reshaping the economics and military character of the entire planet. Rising fuel costs and the spread of battlefield drone technology, he argued, are not side effects but symptoms of a deeper global entanglement. With winter approaching and the humanitarian stakes climbing, he placed before the assembly a question that belongs to all of humanity: how long can the world afford to treat someone else's war