There are also links that are intercontinental.
In South America Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Cuba all have cozy relationships with one another - and the ringleaders, Cuba and Venezuela, have ties to Iran and North Korea and are also dictatorships.
In the Middle East, Syria and Iran are the ringleaders and they have relationships with Russia.
In Asia it is China and North Korea, both dictatorships.
In Europe, Russia and Serbia are the ones aligned against the US and both have cozy relationships with Iran while one of them is now a dictatorship.
And the dictatorship of Iran is the entity that seems to link all of them together.
IMHO, I believe that China is working all of this behind the scenes. They too are in all of these places to one extent or another (outside of perhaps Serbia).