Sudden shifts will appear as Obama unplugs America's strength.

America has been the elephant in the room.  Until it decided where to sit, nobody else took their seat.  Obama has been turning the elephant into a good-natured pet internationally, at ease with dictators but whacking small revolutionaries and whistleblowers.  

Canadian lefty politicians will tone down their love affair with the US donkey. Formerly cautious nations will use violence to get their way.   Putin will get more respect than the American President.  New alliances will form that disregard America's idea of a tidy world.

He hit the RESET button a few times and is now being ignored.  The hardball players of this world are getting on with their game.  It's not going to be a love-in.

Update:  Israel bombs Syria again and experts see a new pattern.

Every man for himself.