It's natural for people who felt that something was theirs -- that it reflected their values and their ethos and their preferred cultural practices, and provided a sheltered cul-de-sac where they built identities and maybe achieved some measure of social prominance -- would get salty as it oozes toward something else, as all living things do.

this is basically a single dude playing a geo-political game at the highest possible level, in an environment that's never existed before, and in a manner that's never been tried before.