1. HOW exactly did it "change the way we see the world"?
Because I for one am not seeing at all what's revolutionary about this. Diplomats and diplomatic privileges are used for spying: old news going back to the 1500s. The Russian government is corrupt: known that since about 1985 or so. Pakistan is unstable--wow, breaking news. Diplomats sometimes despise people they have to pretend to like for diplomatic reasons. Also not exactly a shock.
So where is this sudden revelation? It seems to me that the cables are only shocking if one lives in an astonishingly naive world where everyone is what they officially say they are.
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