Only you know for sure why you ignored it. I could guess your ignoring it has something to do with your having built your construct that the world is letting Ukraine down, that now you have to keep rebuilding it. To make it a "constant noise." It's a feel good thing on your part too, isn't it.
Then this again superiority-hugging drumbeat of yours
"I also see the world starting to understand the effects of a long draw out war or complete defeat of Ukraine on in global terms"
is nuts. Your suggestion the world hadn't been thinking of the effects of a long drawn out war - and a bigger war - from the beginning flies in the face of all we have read and discussed. Still, it makes you feel good to suggest that you were aware and thinking of it before the world did, doesn't it.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”