A ‘look at me’ stunt while the Saudis move?
All of this upheaval, from Sweden to Syria, seems to benefit no one at all except the Sunni Gulf States.
The Western Europeans like France and the UK were hot to overthrow Assad like they were Qaddafi - and dragged Obama into it to be fair - because they also want that Gulf pipepline through Syria because of Russia using oil and gas as leverage against them. That still to me is the theory that makes most sense.