What does the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein say about the regimes in the aggressor countries?
Why would a dictator, who miraculously extricated himself from one unsuccessful and costly aggression, immediately get involved in the next, even more risky one?In the “What Happened” podcast we talk with Maxim Samorukov, a researcher at the Carnegie Berlin Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, about the logic of dictators (not only Saddam Hussein, but also Vladimir Putin) who resort to external aggression.How to support Meduza https://mdza.io/dOANVOeTWQUText by Maxim Samorukov: