Whoever is actually making policy in the US Government, while casually pulling the strings of Joe Biden as he stumbles and stammers in his pretense of "leading" our country, is obviously intent on diminishing the capacities and the morale of the United States and of its people.
The catastrophic damage which been achieved during the past year and continues today is severe enough that it cannot be dismissed as the result of "incompetence" by anyone with the intelligence to step out of the way of an oncoming train. This damage is too thorough and too far-reaching in space and time to be unintentional.
What is not obvious is who is giving orders to those making policy. To destroy the United States and the lives of its people argues for a foreign actor, or perhaps an actor that believes itself to transcend nation-states. Possibilities such as the "NWO", the crocodiles of Davos, the Rothschilds and their obscenely wealthy fellow travelers, and so on seem much more likely than Kim of North Korea or the ignorant "antifa" of the US.
Let us skip lightly over the tyranny of politicians and bureaucrats, along with their outright lying and then accusing those who inquire about these lies as purveyors of "harmful misinformation" since the start of 2020.
Suppressing US production of fuels and then embargoing fuel from its major producers abroad does not punish the producers, it brings productivity to a screeching halt in the US. I will see this before many others because I do a lot of work for a major corrugated container producer, and that industry has for all my adult life been a very sensitive leading indicator of the output of American industry. It makes for a very provincial life in places like Northeast California, Wyoming, or West Texas where going anywhere from one's home depends on moderate to long distance transportation. We haven't seen its effect on delivery service from the likes of Amazon but that seems inevitable, and without that service life will be muchly changed in places like the above; even here in Cheyenne its effect will be significant.
Cutting Russia off from SWIFT struck me at the time it was proposed as a marvelous way to accelerate the dismissal of the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency, and this has begun to arise as a topic for widely read commentators. Given the general bloody mindedness of the EU, I am pretty sure this is the reason they backed the embargo of SWIFT service to Russian banks; despite that the Euro will almost certainly not be the dollar's replacement. I wonder how it will be when not only Europe but the US is obligated to pay for commodities like oil, uranium and lithium in Remibi.
I believe it would be healthier for the world to identify, and then hang, the perpetrators of this misery right now, than to lament the harm they are in process of doing after it has finally sunk home to everyone and will be extremely difficult to remediate. Playing God on a global scale ought not be rewarded.