Turkey, six ex- Soviet republics, and Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Oil fuels the conflict.
The order is tripartite, and conflicts where all three have axes to grind with the other two are entirely possible. But wars are between two parties, calling either for alliances or for withdrawal as outsiders or declared neutrals. That did not happen. NATO has been expanded to include two Catholic and one mixed Central European country, troops are watching each other across fatal fault-lines.