It also fits the P2025 pattern of pitting powers against each other -- just like they're breaking the US government by creating a constitutional crisis, this will allow them to pit NATO nations against each other -- a never tested condition -- to break the alliance.
This would help to clear the path globally for imperialist authoritarians, whose number of course, Trump aspires to join.
Ego, ego, ego. It's all part of his megalomania.