I can think of a few cabals. Or are they all tentacles of a larger entity? Something structured like a cartel?
I may be a little like the new "tradition" in transfer of power. I think George H.W. Bush started it when he got the U.S. into Somalia as he handed the reins to Clinton. I suspect Clinton may have had something to do with 9-11 a few months into George H. Bush's term and Bush left Obama to handle the mess he had made of the Middle East. Obama pulled all the Arab Spring crap just a bit before leaving office and booby-trapped the Executive Branch for Trump when he got there. Biden created most of his own disasters, though, after Trump left him with a fairly peaceful world. Biden is repaying that by getting us into perhaps the biggest war of all--a peer-to-peer nuclear conflict.