Surely US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan must, like Dwight D Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, be hiding a brilliant, cynical calculating genius mind behind that idiot facade? Surely such successive foreign policy catastrophes as the alienation of Saudi Arabia, the humiliating surprise fall of all Afghanistan in a week to the Taliban back in 2021 and now Europe’s bloodiest, most fearful war in nearly a century since World War II in Ukraine must be parts of a Greater, Grander Master Plan? Surely it cannot really be that bad?