Rational take.

I have wondered for a long time if he's been playing a role to disguise what he is doing or if he's actually unaware of the fact that what he is doing is going to break the currency.

We can read between the lines and see that he's walking the Trojan horse into the castle and telling the guys inside to stay quiet.

Or he thinks he can control what is happening and steer the narrative towards his own ideological outcome. Time will tell.

Either way the outcome is similar. He doesn't have to understand what he's doing to play his role.