"The #Trump team, taking its cue from the #president, is trying to pursue two #ContradictoryVisions at the same time — to maintain #America’s status as the world’s leading power while also trying to scale down its international commitments. They want to simultaneously #dominate the #world and #withdraw from it."

https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/405758/signal-leak-trump-vance-hegseth-foreign-policy

Or, put differently, Trump is #Stalin and everybody around him is trying to guess what he wants.