Matt Bevan

As warning sirens blared, Israelis ran for cover.

Missiles were also fired towards Qatar.

In Doha, Qatar's military has been intercepting missiles aimed at a US airbase and the international airport.

Iran targeted Qatari gas infrastructure in retaliation to a strike on its major gas field, wiping out 17% of capacity for up to five years.

Decades of planning, investment and diplomacy by the Qataris

went up in smoke.

The Qatari government has labelled the strike a flagrant breach of international law.

The trouble is, international law doesn't really apply during the jungle times.

And not only that, old alliances and diplomacy are falling apart.

Even OPEC, Saudi Arabia's club of oil producing friends, is breaking down.

with the UAE deciding to go it alone and leave the oil alliance.

They no longer trust that Saudi Arabia will protect them just because they're family.

Qatar has been out of that family for a long time now, spending decades building a diverse network of allies and partners aimed at giving them some semblance of strategic security.

It played the game better than most, but that game is over now.

The people with power now don't think about consequences.

In the jungle times, strength is the only thing that matters.

And Trump, Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia have the strength.

Qatar will survive this crisis.

They're still rich and they still have the US military on their side.

But they will not feel nearly as secure.