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Relationship on tuesd relationship, on tuesday, russia announces an air assault on rebel-held parts of syria. we can already see, there are consequences to the words that donald trump is using, even before inauguration day. >> and james, if there's a throughline in trump's thought about international relations, it's the sense of u.s. being humiliated, right, of the u.s. being -- it's all zero sum. you really wonder about if and when other power attempts to test, essentially, the u.s., how that plays into the decision-making fros. >> exactly, with russia and putin, we have one kind of provocati...

Being -- it's all zero sum. you really wonder about if and when other power attempts to test, essentially, the u.s., how that plays into the decision-making process. >> exactly, with russia and putin, we have one kind of provocation that's very obvious. east asia, china, japan, both koreas, the asean nations, there's been a balance for the last three or four decades that's been based on the presumption of u.s. continuity of policy. so who knows where the challenge will come there, but it will be some sort of challenge in that region, too. >> all right. james fallows, molly o'toole, thanks for ...