Now hold up, Trump hasn't exactly done completed all that just yet, he's just getting started.
During World War II, Nazis infiltrated the Islamic world via some Turkish imans in a mosque in Munich in order to try to utilize Islamic nations in Central Asia as proxies against the Soviet Union, hoping to cleave off chunks along the edges.
After that ended with the Nazis losing the war, the US and UK continued the effort, which picked up speed by the 1970s for not just proxy purposes and but also as a buffer against the spread of Socialism and Nasserism throughout the Middle East. Increased nationalism, extremism, radicalization... Even Wahhabism was turned from a tiny fringe nothing into what we see infecting the Islamic world that we fear so much not just at their doorstep, but ours as well.
Even after Reagan gave, was it 1.5 billion? Or 3.5 billion dollars to Osama bin Laden? to ultimately create Al Qaeda so they can do what they did - to us - we still haven't gotten the hint, still keep trying to prop up Islamic terrorists. So they can use it against us.
Makes sense.
PS: Maybe you haven't heard, but the Soviet Union ended. Three and a half decades ago.
Although it is true that that Puting you ardently defend so much is trying to revive it in some form. Endorsed by Republicans and conservatives throughout the land, of course.
Oh, the irony.