The Trump administration's move to dismantle key elements of U.S. soft power "represent a systematic contraction of the United States’ capacity to make a credible and compelling case for its policies and behaviors in the global information space." https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/strategic-impatience-and-undoing-american-soft-power
Strategic Impatience and the Undoing of American Soft Power

There are no real winners in a global retreat from soft power.

USC Center on Public Diplomacy
@newsguyusa This is correct. Perhaps the regime brain trust thought all they needed was a big military and belligerence. What they did at State and USAID is criminal and appears directed towards the goal of weakening the US. There is no mystery as to who that goal benefits. Idiots