This is a bit false too, since autmagically certain realms got targeted and chosen when actions were decided. I do believe that those actions were not based on realms effected by those.
I know it hurts Atanamir who has been doing pretty hard work to make those realms he play to survive against pretty bad odds and realms which he plays(atleast Darka and Perdan) is not suffering much of the problems these events are planned to "fix" or ease.
Anyway, we do know these were actions needed to be taken and lets hope thse ease the problem.
Regions were chosen, never realms. There was never, "let's take this chunk of a realm", it was, "it seems based on the randomly chosen directions for FEI and EC, as well as northern AT because it only makes sense to, we should freeze these regions to freeze the specified number of regions"
Thus as realms were never chosen, only regions were, realms were never targeted. Realms may be losing regions but they were never targeted.
