The main unspoken reason for the Kremlin’s Syria mission was to re-establish Russia as a global player on par with the United States.
Libya
Method in the Madness
North Korea’s leaders are despicable but not crazy. After witnessing the fate of Saddam Hussein, who never got the bomb, and Gaddafi, who abstained from it, developing a nuclear weapon is about the most rational thing a rogue state can do.