There is a simple truth about the human body that physicians have understood for centuries. One cannot decide that a particular organ may suffer while the rest of the body will remain unaffected. If the heart weakens, the lungs begin to struggle. If the lungs falter, the brain soon feels the consequences. The human body is a single, integrated system in which distress in one part slowly becomes distress for the whole. The modern world operates in much the same way, even though nations often behave as if they live in isolation.

The modern world has perfected a curious moral skill. Nations have learnt how to be deeply outraged about some wars and curiously patient about others. Leaders condemn certain violations of sovereignty with thunderous speeches while describing similar events elsewhere as complex regional matters. Yet, the world we inhabit is no longer arranged into neat compartments.

Countries frequently treat conflicts and crises as if they can be geographically contained. Wars are described as regional matters, humanitarian disasters as distant tragedies, and political instability as somebody else’s problem. Yet, the architecture of the global economy and the realities of geopolitics repeatedly remind us that such thinking belongs to another era. The world today is deeply interconnected through human migration, energy systems, supply chains, financial markets, and technology networks. When instability emerges in one region, its affects travel swiftly through these invisible arteries of global interdependence.

The ongoing hostilities in West Asia offer a striking illustration of this reality. Military confrontations involving powerful nations rarely remain confined to their immediate geography. They quickly transform into global........

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