Beyond the immediate tactical danger of a regional firestorm, a quieter but perhaps more significant global realignment began to take shape. Middle powers, particularly those like Mexico, Brazil, and Turkey, found themselves caught in a vice between their stated principles of non-interference and the brutal reality of economic survival. These nations, while publicly calling for restraint, were essentially defending their own stability in a world where a single miscalculation in the Middle East could add $40 to a barrel of oil overnight, triggering domestic inflation and social unrest. Their diplomatic pleas were not born of pacifism, but of a desperate need to preserve the global supply chains that keep their developing economies afloat. The geography of the conflict may have been Persian, but the consequences were truly universal.
