It really isn’t that simple.
Lin Yutang said that Englishmen are wonderful fellows, so long as they stay at home in England. The same may hold true for Americans, partly because they think news happens on TV, and partly because they think they can understand tribal politics and warfare, and they can’t.
Victoria Nuland is not a catalyst, any more than Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity is. World events happen off screen. Nobody in America notices them until they pop on their screen, and Americans think that that is their beginning, or even their cause.