The transformation of the architecture of global threats: factors in the international community’s social adaptation to the war in ukraine

<jats:p>Modern humanity is undergoing a unique psychological turning point, in which globalization has, for the first time, come face-to-face with its own total exhaustion. The wave of absolute solidarity and emotional shock that swept the planet at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has finally given way to cold pragmatism and the rationalization of inner fears. While Ukrainians test the limits of their endurance every day and fight for their right to exist, the international community is sinking ever deeper into a state that sociologists call the “snail effect” or a retreat into individualism. People around the world have grown weary of large-scale upheavals that have lasted for years and are subconsciously retreating into their own microcosms, focusing only on what they can control themselves. According to the latest large-scale surveys by the Ipsos analytical center (Ipsos Global Attitudes), the landscape of global anxieties has undergone radical shifts. Today, the average European, American, or resident of the Global South is far more concerned about petty crime in their own city, stagnant inflation, the migration crisis, and the erosion of their familiar social order than about tectonic macro-political shifts in Eastern Europe. The collective West and its partners did not become cynical or indifferent on purpose — they found themselves blinded and paralyzed by their own challenges. When a threat becomes chronic, it inevitably turns into a statistic. As a result, a profound paradoxical divide emerges: while for Ukraine this war remains a matter of minute-by-minute physical survival and the preservation of statehood, for the rest of the world it has become mere background noise—just one of many items in the daily stream of crisis news. Where does the line lie between the rational exhaustion of foreign voters and the existential pain of Ukrainian society? How exactly are the macrotrends of “new nihilism” changing governments’ willingness to provide support, and what role does the fear of a new world war play in this? Let’s try to make sense of these processes through the dry but ruthless language of global statistics and sociological facts. Keywords: globalization, macro-political crises, multiple crises, strategic resilience, geopolitical fragmentation, analytical studies, the Russian-Ukrainian war.</jats:p>