Also keep in mind that Gaddafi and Mubarak and Assad all refused to go along with Sarkosy’s Mediterranean agenda for that block of nations around the Mediterranean...especially after the EU agreed it would be good to merge them as as one with the Eu.
If a dictator nation will not comply with the Global Agenda...they'll remove them...I know that sounds like conspiracy theory stuff...but the Global Agenda is very real...and they play for keeps .
Putin has played the ME like a master chess player. He has disallowed iran their nuclear ambitions while appearing to ‘help’ them. He has allowed Israel the intel to take out Syria’s most dangerous weapons. He has kept the sunni and shia at each others’ throats. He has kept China at bay in the ME. In other words, he DID what the US should have done if our own government was on the side of the angels.