USA v Europe

25-12-5 (Vance's) National Security Strategy - reversing US foreign policy | DW > .

25-12-5 National Security Strategy: Europe risks "civilizational erasure" | CBS > .

25-12-5 NSS's impact on European security & transatlantic relationship? | DW > .

25-12-5 Trump flaunts contempt for Europe in National Security Plan - CNN > .

25-12-5 New security strategy: fascisised, pro-Russian, anti-European - Vlad > .

25-12-5 Trump’s Strategy Shocks Europe And World | Mallen Baker > .

25-12-5 Defense Strategy Expert on DJT’s New National Security Plan - Forbes > .

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25-12-5 USA Directly Threatens Canada Again! (CUSMA) - Claus > .

25-12-5 Future of Canada’s military; joining Europe’s defence fund - G&M > .

Trump has graduated from Putin's Puppet to Shady Vance's (?) Puppet. In other words, dementing, volatile, hypersensitive, dim Donald is used as a media-attracting mouthpiece whilst the actual US Badministration pulls levers behind the curtain. 

I suspect that Xi possibly hatched this plan during his many meetings with Putin. Regardless, it is clear that Trump expects that sacrificing Ukraine to Putin will reap abundant (corrupt) financial rewards in Russia. Quite likely, Trump's childlike adulation of Putin also contributed to both his "Peace Plan" betrayals of Ukraine and his contempt for the USA's former official policy of "support" of Europe.

A quote appropriate to the situation: “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune