The same families that invested in the US in the early years planned decades (or longer) ago to invest in China, while deflating the US. The plan after that is to bring Chinese communism (or worse) to the rest of the world.

I can see part of the "setting up the US to fail" in various moves from the current Executive administration (following suit with the previous lineage). Examples are: leaving military tech in Afganistan for China to acquire, depleting emergency petroleum reserves, dumping weapons in Ukraine, while not preventing a multi-front set of conflicts.

Some of this path is explained in the book "Behold A Pale Horse" by Wiliam Cooper