To understand this colossal, deadly, and decadent military Empire (heir to the Brutish colonial empire) and last version of the Roman Empire, there are two threads running since 1997:
("Then the downhill began", William Perry, Secretary of Defense -1997)
A) The plan, driven by the obsessions of Sadducean-type Zionists, is well illustrated in this video (note, in passing, how the general respects the law of silence and trots out the oil story)
B) The other thread is the obsession of Pharisee-type Zionists with Russia.
The two threads collided in 2016.
That's why Donald Likud Trump "is a Russian asset"