He is not only attacking the US, he wants to breakup democracies world wide and through causing international crisis and turmoil, push all countries into becoming authoritarian regimes, controlled by oligarchs and one-party systems.
That is the actual goal, and he is doing that while trying to maintain plausible deniability, by staging himself as an incompetent and incoherent buffoon.
And even if he is a real buffoon and doesn’t understand the end goal, he has a lot of more intelligent antidemocratic advisors around him that do. This is not coming out of nowhere.
He is not only attacking the US, he wants to breakup democracies world wide and through causing international crisis and turmoil, push all countries into becoming authoritarian regimes, controlled by oligarchs and one-party systems.
That is the actual goal, and he is doing that while trying to maintain plausible deniability, by staging himself as an incompetent and incoherent buffoon.
And even if he is a real buffoon and doesn’t understand the end goal, he has a lot of more intelligent antidemocratic advisors around him that do. This is not coming out of nowhere.