Matt Bevan

Streets littered with cars torched in the intense bombardment.

The sound of several gunshots sent the president ducking.

Russia has unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on Ukraine.

Delta Force commandos seized Venezuela's president.

This show is generally about looking at historical moments that either led to current events or help us better understand current events.

We find historical precedents.

And taken individually, all the things happening right now do have a precedent.

From oil shocks to wars in the Middle East, we have been talking about these precedents

for weeks in the 80s in sydney i remember petrol rationing was done by state governments we all know from iraq from afghanistan a war that's one month that becomes six months that becomes six years that becomes a decade but i think that in one very important way what we're watching now is different and that's that all of these things are happening at once

Every day, things just get more and more chaotic.

And one person in particular is leading that chaos.

The way the world operates is changing in a way that will be with us for a long time.

Since the jungle time started, it's clear the old rules no longer apply.

And I think the best example of where this shift is hitting the hardest isn't in Iran, Israel, the US or Lebanon, but in Qatar.

Qatar, where the world's biggest gas plant is.

Qatar has spent the last 50 years following the rules of the stable times.

Meticulously planning, scheming and plotting to make itself immune to global instability.

To make sure that something like this... Iran targeted Qatari gas infrastructure in retaliation to a strike on its major gas field.

Can never happen.

And yet, it has.