Not long ago, I stumbled upon an old clip of George W Bush hosting Vladimir Putin at his Texas ranch. Bush, in his usual casual swagger, spoke in awkward metaphors, grinned too often, and seemed unable to put together a sentence without either fumbling or reaching for something vaguely Texan. “I looked into his soul,” he said of Putin, almost as if he were describing a horse instead of the president of a former Cold War rival. The moment felt surreal, borderline comical. But it triggered a question I haven’t been able to shake since.
How could someone who came across as so visibly foolish rise to become the president of the most powerful nation on Earth?
At first glance, it feels like a fluke. A lucky son of a political dynasty who stumbled into the White House. But as I followed the trail, what I found was far more disturbing. Bush wasn’t alone. And it wasn’t just incompetence. It was a pattern.
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