But it goes much deeper than that. Include the Western governments propping up puppet regimes in the Middle East which created all kinds of imbalances.
Agree, big part of it, if not the main reason. Sunni minority rule when removed equals chaos. Shia rule when undermined equals chaos. Proxy armies everywhere. Saudi, US, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon etc etc
I am very curious to hear how you are omniscient[1] because you were able to make the speed-of-light infinite[2] and thus you know what decentralized annealing would have done otherwise.
You won't understand my point, yet it is a rebuttal and I don't have time to teach any more.
[1]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355212.msg13704711#msg13704711[2]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355212.msg13705829#msg137058291. Obviously I'm not
2. Ditto
I probably don't, but I'm assuming it is: problems are deeper than geopolitical because of man's attempts to control the uncontrollable. Neither I, nor anyone else, can ascertain what outcome will occur from any given action (and therefore my "when removed = " statement is untrue.) Only the invisible hand can (the decentralised annealing you are referring to?), and Western governments in attempting to control have been supporting countries that are unbalanced (unsophisticated as a whole 'computer', yet making a fortune) and relying on one thing (oil....or mining etc). Like markets they are destined, or rather need, to revert to the mean, hence the chaos as the process takes place.