It doesn’t much matter whether he has a plan to destroy the USA or whether he is a dumbass being manipulated by others with a plan to destroy the USA, or whether the manipulation is mainly based in blackmail or narcissistic pride. The overall result is the same.
The fourth possibility you failed to consider, or at least did not include in that list, is that he has such a demented, egotistical, dumb fuck, that he is doing what he’s doing for those reasons.
But you’re correct: the result is mostly, if not completely, the same.
It doesn’t much matter whether he has a plan to destroy the USA or whether he is a dumbass being manipulated by others with a plan to destroy the USA, or whether the manipulation is mainly based in blackmail or narcissistic pride. The overall result is the same.
The fourth possibility you failed to consider, or at least did not include in that list, is that he has such a demented, egotistical, dumb fuck, that he is doing what he’s doing for those reasons.
But you’re correct: the result is mostly, if not completely, the same.