When U.S. bombs hit Iranian territory in a coordinated strike with Israel, analysts braced for a familiar domino effect: panic in the oil markets, prices spiking to triple digits, and headlines screaming of another global energy shock. But instead, the markets yawned. Prices barely budged. Within days, crude was back trading around $65 a barrel. This wasn’t how the oil story was supposed to go.

The liberal dream of economics constraining politics has been inverted. Instead of markets disciplining geopolitics, we now live in a world where geopolitics disciplines markets. Economic instruments have been absorbed into the logic of strategic competition, and there's no going back.

The case of Latvia demonstrates that modern conflicts increasingly play out in the realm of identity and information rather than traditional military confrontation. As Russia continues to promote its vision of a transnational "Russian World," other countries with significant Russian-speaking populations will face similar challenges.

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