If you think this event is going to meaningfully change the end-state that they’re aiming for, you’re kidding yourself.

If anything, this’ll just make them try to speed up the progression - which paradoxically, I think may end up being a good thing, because they’ll try to do too much, too fast, and end up triggering a ton of backlash and resistance, instead of boiling the frog slowly as they were doing before.

Not to mention, I wouldn’t be enormously shocked if this turns out to be some sort of false-flag thing, done simply to generate a casus belli against any and all Americans they don’t like.