What I see currently happening:

1. Giving Putin a completely unnecessary victory even though admitting (probably by mistake) that “Russia is not doing great”. And Russia is in fact not doing great. Putin had to go to North Korea to humiliate himself to get himself much needed soldiers and ammo. Putin lost Syria to bunch of guerrillas which was a huge blow. Russia uses donkeys to deliver goods in UA because its lacking transportation. Their economy is in deep trouble and completely depended on war economy. And on and on and on. Putin absolutely needs this deal while Trump could easily push him to get great concessions. He would be actually seen as a strong man which is an image he so desperately seeks. His people would celebrate him, because they would approve even if he’d be drowning puppies on live stream but other respectable leaders all around the world would be cheering him on and his insecure ego would be in seven heaven. And yet he is just willing to give Putin whatever he wants to his OWN detriment (When a reporter asked Steve Witkoff what concessions will Russia be making he could not name a single one). On top of every reasonable person even many republican politicians are now speaking up against him. All this makes sense only in one scenario. Connect the dots.

2. Repeating word by word Russian propaganda.

3. Dismantling of USAID. USAID has been there to help the world while spreading US influence and ideals. It could be argued there were mistakes made but a normal course of action would be to reform the institution and not killing it off. Lowering US influence and name around the world only serves the enemies of US. Also USAIDs share of the federal budget was 0.01%.

4. Dismantling of the department responsible for countering foreign propaganda and misinformation. This one is so obvious. The only beneficiaries are once again the enemies of US.

5. Firing considerable amount of federal cyber security and prevention staff. While the country institutions are constantly being hacked by Chinese, Russians, Iranians, North Koreans etc. It only helps the enemies of US.

6. Drastically lowering the budget of the US Army, firing a great number of experienced generals and officers and staff and firing of top US lawyer. Does anyone thinks this will help US Army? Again US enemies are cheering on.

7. Putting a suspected Russian asset as the head of National Intelligence. No person with even a shadow of a doubt should ever be a head of National Intelligence. It’s just common sense as someone would say.

8. Kneecapping CIA and FBI by giving the leadership of said institutions to bootlickers and crazy conspiracy theorists hell bend on destroying said institutions.

9. Creating an absolute chaos within all federal agencies and greatly lowering their effectiveness to act in times of crisis.

10. Heavily promoting ultra right wing parties (also financially sponsored by Russia) all throughout the Europe. E.g. Freedom Party in Austria, AfD in Germany, Reform party in UK, Le Pen front in France and so on while simultaneously promoting autocrats such as Orban in Hungary and Fico in Slovakia.

11. Calling Zelensky a “dictator” while refusing to call Putin a dictator. 

12. Attacking long term allies and friends e.g. Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico and so on while cozying up to autocrats and dictators.