Imagine you were a foreign agent working to undermine America. What would you do? Weaken public health. Undermine trust in vaccines, medicine and science. Weaken agriculture. Spread fear about food and agricultural technology. Make food harder and more expensive to produce. Drain military resources. Encourage conflicts that burn through weapons, money and attention faster than they can be replaced. Destroy trust in institutions. Convince people that scientists, doctors, universities, regulators and journalists are all lying to them. Then divide the population. Make Americans hate each other more than they fear their actual adversaries. And finally, destroy the idea of objective truth itself. Flood the information space with so much misinformation that nobody knows what to believe anymore. The result? A country that is poorer, sicker, more divided, less secure and less capable of responding to a crisis. You don’t need to defeat a country from the outside if you can persuade it to weaken itself from within.