First order of business for Trump's foreign policy was to shake out the yays and nays wrt renegotiated, bi-lateral trade deals.
Tillerson would be a trusted source from a foreign perspective, so the countries he brought on board go into the yay column, as well as the employees at state who worked in support of his efforts.
The nays are the countries who turned down those diplomatic offerings of mediation and those employees who worked against those diplomatic efforts.
Now the nays get the military solution, and as Q said, they were warned.
Tillerson was the velvet glove, Pompeo the iron fist.
Crunch time.