> >From a management perspective, that's a nightmare of a list: faced with that pile of piles of shit, very little else is going to get done for the next several weeks, and some important relationships - important in the sense of the associated costs of maintaining US dominance / influence in certain regions - have been permanently altered. It's not the beginning of the revolution, but we need to learn from it - because you can be assured they will.
I agree with this. It destabilizes things a bit, makes statecraft and diplomacy a bit more difficult, which can make a change in dynamics. I guess the question is whether it's a change that makes a difference or not.