At this point I'm finding myself leaning towards the USA is fake. As in, whatever the USA is, it isn't what we are being told it is in reality.
America, the nation, the people, is gone. I have no idea how long ago it was retired but the hidden rulers have been running all of the west longer than we've been around.
There is an outward patina that tips it hat to the official narrative but all the real decisions are being made behind closed doors by unknown people who actually hold most all of the power. There is probably more than one faction running the globe, hence the incoherence in the official stories as the factions compete behind the scenes for control.
Conspiratorial thinking? OK, sure.
Filtering all "news" through that assumption doesn't require me to believe six impossible things before breakfast though.
Trump for all his faults was pulling back the curtain a little bit.
All media and politics is a phony corrupt "show".
Enjoy the show, just don't think it is real.