In the immortal words of JP Morgan Chase, "natural disasters are great for GDP and terrible for the economy." It's not money you would have spent, given a choice? But there's no longer a choice. When I visited London at 13 I asked our hosts why the place was half skyscraper, half thatched roof. "Because the Blitz didn't bomb everything," they said. The opportunities present in Ukraine have come at an unforgivable price. That price is only going to go up. But for people of character and ability, there is likely to be an opportunity to reshape destinies. I think both goobster and I can agree that a career is that thing you get when you move from opportunity to opportunity. If you're somewhere that inspires you, doing things that reward you, the absolute best thing to do is to keep doing that to see what opportunities open up. Worst case scenario you end up with a blank spot on your resume where, if they ask, you say "I was fighting the Russians and rebuilding Ukraine."