- a lot of cease fires, reduction of Intel and similar happened to often come at maximal bad timing for the UK

- various "money saving actions" seem to directly hurt US cyber defense

- and military

- and internal stability

- and economy

- and trust from allies

- and military cooperation with allies

in ways which go beyond any reasonable "this could have worked out" or "this might long term be good" makes it really look like Trump isn't fighting for the US but against it

or (more realistic) he is just kinda incompetent (in geo politics, etc., not saying he is dumb); Badly consulted by some truly heinous people, some with conflicting goals; And probably corrupt; And maybe Russia can black mail him; And he spend all his live wiggling himself to success, which doesn't work when doing geo-politics with Russia;

The idea came to me when watching something about Idi Amin, one such character described

In reality it seems he effectively crippled his nations military because he was a paranoid coward.