China's leadership certainly understands this well. Putin's cronies have undoubtedly taken notice. France's backstabbing class sees it as well. And the Iranian nutjobs, Venezuelan idiots, Al Quaeda murderers, Palestinian murderers, Baathists, and other assorted thugs see it clearly, too. They have plans that will unfold over time. The lives of their subjects are cheap, and their ambitions are unlimited. They have little to worry about - after all, who is going to stop them now?
I think the message has been sent. What could have been solved conventionally will now go nuclear. The ignorance of the citizenry has now ushered in the Biblical holocaust predicted centuries ago. A godless society cannot elect good men to office. Iran is free to take the middle east on their own timetable. Israel will have to thaw out their nuclear weaponry.