This is how cycles start. A strike on Feb. 28 becomes a headline, then retaliation becomes a justification, then the next wave becomes inevitability. The papers will speak of 'surgical' blows, yet the region is not a body with neat organs, it's a crowded street. When Iran hits back at bases in Bahrain or Kuwait, the map fills with new targets, and every government claims it is only responding. The UN convenes, speeches fly, and nothing unbreaks what has been broken. The bitter joke is that everyone will call it necessity, as if necessity were a god demanding sacrifice. I do not see an ending, only a widening.