Trump's team is looking to return to an untrammeled Great Power foreign policy and unlimited spheres of influence.
This is the bigger picture behind Trump's dictator fluffing. He's a crazy old man, but his handlers have actual ideas they are moving towards.
They are willing to trade a unipolar world in which the US is constrained by international agencies for unlimited regional power. https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/samuel-huntington-fukuyama-clash-of-civilizations/