New Delhi, April 9 -- Wars are usually described as separate events, shaped by geography and immediate triggers. The ongoing conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran resists such neat containment. What appears, at first glance, as a regional escalation is, in fact, a broader systemic disturbance, one that is testing legal norms, economic arrangements and geopolitical alignments at the same time. Recent developments only reinforce this impression. The conflict has expanded across multiple theatres, drawn in non-state actors and begun to unsettle critical global supply chains. Its effects are no longer confined to one region. They are increasingly global in character. At one level, familiar patterns of deterrence and retaliatio...