Jim Mattis resigning his position as Defense Secretary is the latest entry in a parade of stable, responsible individuals abandoning the Trump Administration. Mattis was becoming frustrated with Trump's inability or unwillingness to recognize who America's allies and who America's enemies are. A number of people have a theory that Trump is being blackmailed by Russia into, at the very least, keeping the U.S. out of its way. Unsurprisingly, Mattis quit the same week Trump decided to pull out of Syria, pretty much handing that country over to Russia.