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So, it was early 2024, and Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Ayatollah Khamenei, and Xi Jinping all walk into a seedy, second-floor bar in some unnamed country. After several rounds, Vladimir poses a question:

"Gentlemen, if we pooled all our resources, what could we do to cause the greatest possible damage to the United States?"

They all scratched their heads. Nuclear strikes? No, Madness. Naval blockades? They’d find a way around them. A land war in Asia? A classic blunder. They all agreed: no external attack could truly succeed.

Suddenly, a drunken lunatic stumbles over from the corner. "I know how!" he slurs.

"You get the Americans to elect a raving narcissist as President. Then, you have him alienate all their allies and convince Congress to install totally unqualified people into the Cabinet—especially Defense, Transportation, Intelligence, Homeland Defense and Health. Ensure the Attorney General holds their Constitution upside down and just rubber-stamps everything he wants.

"Most importantly," the lunatic continues, practically shrieking, "have the administration invent some ridiculous internal enemy... like, say, everyone in government is suddenly 'woke!'... and use that as an excuse to fire everybody who knows how anything works. Generals, Admirals, Intelligence Officers, Financial experts, FBI Agents, Transportation officials, Inspectors General. EVERYBODY! Heck, you could even have a civilian billionaire come in and prance around on stage with a chainsaw and replace seasoned professionals with teenagers at the top of multiple government organizations. Thousands of years of combined knowledge... just... poof! Gone! No country could ever recover from that. It's brilliant!"

Vladimir, sighing, shoves the raving lunatic straight out the second-story window. He turns back to his friends, straightens his jacket, and mutters, "Идиот (Idiot.)."

"Not even the Americans are that stupid."