It can be both. There's thousands of people involved and most of them don't like each other. Some of the most critical players have alzheimer's they can't quite keep under wraps. And they're all ardent capitalists. They can be malicious and incompetent at the same time as a gestalt, even while some of them are very competent within specific scenarios.

For instance, they can keep shoveling money in to Ukraine because they all agree on it, while at the same time the Democrats have no real awareness that the GOP is plotting to kill them.