New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- New York - The war in Ukraine entered day 1,306 with a combustible mix of Baltic airspace theatrics, refinery fires inside Russia, and showy diplomacy in New York, where Western leaders talked tough while quietly acknowledging the legal and strategic limits of escalation. Estonia demanded consultations under NATO's Article 4 after saying Russian jets slipped into its airspace for about a dozen minutes; alliance capitals amplified the alarm, then couched it in careful caveats. Kyiv touted strikes on Russian oil plants as economic warfare, even as Moscow moved to cushion the domestic fuel shock and threatened further export curbs. The choreography felt familiar: rhetoric about "deterrence," a chorus of warnings, and a s...