A closed restaurant is seen due to a shortage of commercial liquefied petroleum gas cylinders in Chennai on March 10, 2026, due to disruptions in the supply chain amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. | R. Satish Babu/AFP via Getty Images Butter chicken has disappeared from some restaurant menus in India. Sri Lanka declared every Wednesday a public holiday . Laos cut its school week to three days . Egypt ordered shops and cafes to close by 9 pm. In Thailand, government workers were told to take the stairs instead of the elevator . And in South Korea, the president urged citizens to take shorter showers . These are wartime policies, even though none of these countries are actually fighting a war. All of them, however, are caught in the blast radius of one being fought thousands of miles away.…