On the anniversary of a day already etched into the world's memory, Saudi Arabia has shuttered its East-West pipeline following drone strikes launched from Iraqi territory, drawing a stark new boundary in the geography of conflict — one that now runs through the infrastructure of global energy itself. The closure, compounded by Houthi seizure of a strategic island and mounting threats to Red Sea shipping lanes, suggests that the Middle East's long-simmering proxy wars have entered a phase where the world's economic arteries are the battlefield. What was once a regional struggle for influence h