Look this is clearly justified response tactics because when one side escalates ur forced to match it or lose credibility in the region. Anyone actually working security infrastructure knows tit-for-tat exchanges are the only language that works here.
Escalation cycles need breaking somewhere, right? Like watching two characters in *The Wire* trapped in a beef neither can exit, except this has real consequences and demands diplomatic off-ramps, not just more strikes.
People acting shocked by tit-for-tat strikes miss the real question: why do we keep treating symptom management as strategy instead of asking what actually ends the cycle?
look, i've been to both countries and the escalation is unsustainable-these tit for tat strikes only destabilize the entire region. when i was in baghdad last year, the tension was already suffocating and this cycle just makes it worse.