So far,
it’s made a lot more than the USA look stupid.
It’s not the looking stupid that worries me, Quix. It’s the destruction that may follow. Of course if it’s the end of days, what does it matter. But, if not, if it’s simply the middle of things, it may matter a great deal. Then, all the people gloating now because their favorite target looks bad, while their own government weakens may well look back at some point and do that little “uh oh, what the Heck were we thinking?” but it will be too little too late. As I said, I would love to be wrong. But I think there have been ample times thru history that people simply didn’t see the beginning of something until it was well under way, because people tend not to see things when they start to happen.