How does the study of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein help better understand Putinism and other regimes in aggressors? We discuss with Maxim Samorukov

Why did the dictator, who miraculously got out of one unsuccessful and expensive aggression, immediately get involved in the next, even more risky? And what does this lead to?

The expert of the Carnegie Berlin Center Maxim Samorukov explains this using the example of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who occupied Kuwait in 1990 - although back in 1988 he could hardly completed the expensive and not particularly successful war with Iran. To end the war with Iran Iraq, including helped US support.

But the fighting in Kuwait showed how badly Hussein and the Americans understood each other's logic. In 1991, the United States, along with the allies, began surgery to liberate Kuwait "Storm in the desert." The coalition completely freed Kuwait and occupied about 15% of the territory of Iraq. Later, in 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq itself - this led to the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.

We are talking with the researcher of the Carnegie Berlin Center for the Study of Russia and Eurasia Maxim Samorukov about the logic of dictators (not only Saddam Hussein, but also Vladimir Putin), who resort to external aggression.

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