I was not aware of measurable algorithmic complexity concept being adopted in historical and geopolitical concepts were we can have the analogy of O(n) and O(nlogn) crisis, but I will say that when it comes to geopolitics, in most cases (1) , things are revealed to increasingly complex the more we learn about them and vice-versa. The less we know about an issue, the more clear-cut it appears.
E.g. In the recent crisis in Syria and the subsequent immigration wave, a lot of people in my country exclaiming their simplistic disbelief of why “able bodied Syrians didn’t stay in their country to fight and decided to hop on a boat and appear on our borders?” … it seemed to them as a very reasonable thing to say while drinking coffee on their break from work.
Meanwhile in Syria:
(source - I have not read it, but since it is a research paper and not a random internet image, it is the correct thing to cite it. Just from the abstract though, it is relevant to the point I am making about centuries of historic feuds affecting the current events)
Now, I will not pretend that I have the faintest idea of what went on in Syria during that time, but just from that graphic, it is no wonder that a lot of people there couldn’t just “pick a side” and fled.
But the people here, being so far removed from the situation, didn’t really bother even googling the basics, so they thought that it was just a “clear cut civil war with two sides” and made unfounded assumptions about the situation.
The less we know, the simplier geopolitical matters appear to us.
(1) I said “most” to err on the side of caution. For the record, as far as my limited historical knowledge is concerned, I cannot think of any geopolitical situation that this is/was not true.
Kind of true, but come to think of it … (proceeds to write a few pages on that, while also pointing out that before anything else we should establish a common way in which the screens are measured - phone swipes? tablets?, standard pc monitor page downs, what screen resolutions in that case, or maybe copy-pasting the text to a doc file, etc 
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