Change is arriving far more swiftly than anyone expects.
The murky complexity unfolding to the north right now is, without question, worthy of being called the opening act of the next great global upheaval.
And yet many people’s attention has drifted slightly off-target.
The chaos itself — that’s not what matters.
Being unable to contain the chaos — that is what matters.
Whatever the final outcome may be, even ten or twenty years from now, you will find that countless events trace back to this foreign turmoil, are intimately bound to it — you could even say it is the source.
So be it. We wait.
This is a lesson that many of us need to learn carefully.