A very good but very depressing article from WIRED:

IMAGINE YOU WERE Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke up a year ago having magically been given command of puppet strings that control the White House. Your explicit geopolitical goal is to undermine trust in the United States on the world stage. You want to destroy the Western rules-based order that has preserved peace and security for 80 years, which allowed the US to triumph as an economic superpower and beacon of hope and innovation for the world. What exactly would you do differently with your marionette other than enact the ever more reckless agenda that Donald Trump has pursued since he became president last year?

Nothing.

Excerpt From
“We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower”
Garrett M. Graff
WIRED
https://apple.news/AJXjTIBOKTY2p-2EhSF01WA
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