“The Ukraine Maneuver”. Invade a strategicly-important but relatively weak nearby country to gain access to resources.

AKA Imperialism: the reboot.

He needs a war before congress gets its shit together and demands the Epstein Files.

A puppet government who will “sell” oil to the US for cheap.

Endless wars with foreign enemies, obviously. What else to fascists do?

There is no endgame, at least not for Trump. This is just the latest shiny debacle that caught his attention.

Some of his cronies might have more long-term plans, but they’re not any smarter than him, so it doesn’t really matter what their plans are. They’ll stumble into the same shit-for-brains course of action that their toddler-in-chief would with no plan at all.