Random question

[nancylebov]

I'm not astonishingly good at keeping track of complicated human situations. Unless it's very well done (Game of Thrones, but *not* the sequels or the tv shows), I forget who's related to who and what the backstory was.

Obviously, there are people who are much better at such things than I am, but are there any real world events which went wrong because someone in charge simply forgot the details of alliances and enmities?

Two relevant links:

Not very funny, possibly could be improved with dotted lines:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/26/the-middle-east-explained-in-one-sort-of-terrifying-chart/

Funny:
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/08/23/game-of-thrones-season-4-episode1-no-spoilers/

Links thanks to andrewducker

Comments

Second link

[thnidu]

Oy oy oy!

And, since I saw this post of yours right after making my latest post, which is about the way most humans are not astonishingly good at keeping track of certain kinds of complicated syntax, I sort of had to reply in (un)kind. See the first two comments on that Game of Thrones link.