As the wise said, all road lead to Putin !
Do we know whether it was Mark Esper who told Trump to do nothing about Russia's underhanded tactics? And do we know whether the intelligence agencies have been purged of Trump's enemies (who refuse give him timely intelligence briefs, or even give him misleading briefs)? The Deep State is still at work undermining Trump since the CIA, FBI, DOJ were never properly purged of all the traitors within.
Putin was never a friend of the USA and that should have been clear for a very long time. So Putin is not the problem as such. Both Russia and China hate the USA. But the Russian Collusion narrative was a TOTAL HOAX, yet not one of the conspirators -- starting with Obama -- was imprisoned for treason.
However, it was Hillary Clinton who was colluding with Putin (and selling him uranium secretly). The MSM deliberately suppressed this news and flipped the narrative on to Trump and the *Russian Collusion Hoax* for three years.
But what has happened since the beginning of 2020 (perhaps earlier) is that Mr, Trump has failed to purge all the traitors both within and outside the White House, and he has failed to remain totally focused in what matters.
It appears that he has absolutely no sound advisers helping him to make critical decisions proactively. Leadership means planning way ahead of all crises, and that has not happened.
Instead of firing all those who should have been fired (or not even hired to begin with) he has surrounded himself with people who are out to sabotage him. He has also been sabotaging himself on an almost daily basis in many different ways, particularly catering to the media jackals
. Then he has made numerous bad decisions (including failure to go after Russia a long time ago) and now everything seems to be crashing all around him.
The Wuhan pandemic was poorly handled and traitors were put in charge. Then the anarchy throughout the USA was not put down with a strong hand immediately, and again a traitor was put in charge. His own Secretary of Defense defied him, and Trump failed to fire him on the spot.