So basically: they all pulled different PR-stunts to deceive the European population. All the feuds, skirmishes, it was all just optics. They all attacked Iran, the Empire of Lies.
Fidel Castro:
“Our country had been deceived for 60 years by a farce they called elections; that is, by a false democracy that has also been deceiving the peoples of Latin America for a century and a half, and that never solved anything. It only served to bring to power all kinds of mediocre men, ambitious and thieving politicians, servants of vested interests.”