Russia mobilizes its forces on Germany's eastern borders....
The aim of the revolt was to create a single unified and independent Arab state stretching from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen, which the British had promised to recognize.
After WW1, the huge empires started to develop a search of something called great power status, which is a international relationships concept who designates a nation who acts with own protagonism, running in any influence degrees or directly power in that context (political, military, economic, and in a very subtle way, thin power.