If you view all this through the lens of the goal of administration being to weaken the US both internally and as a world power, it all comes much more clearly

If you view all this through the lens of the goal of administration being to weaken the US both internally and as a world power, it all comes much more clearly into focus. Then it can be seen as no longer a disparate collection of seemingly random political, social, and economic moves, but rather as a directed, intentional movement.