History is filled with entire nations following leaders who were becoming increasingly delusional due to age or illness. The Iranian absolute ruler of today, Ali Khamenei, is now 85, and while he might be sharp as a tack, he could also be so deeply enmeshed in the messianic delusions of his own mentor, Ayatollah Khomeini, that he is unaware that Iran is now “naked to its enemies” — which would be Israel and America, the little Satan and the Great Satan.
The last Empress of China was mad as a hatter, living in a fictional China that was presented for her by her courtiers, who pretended that China was still all-powerful, when in fact it had crumbled into its usual chaos of local warlords. Joe Biden is relatively sane, but he is showing the signs of Parkinson’s disease, or at least that is a common medical guess. Biden shows his anger at Kamala, who overthrew him with the aid of Obama and probably Hillary, who is also showing signs of wear and tear.
As we know, George III — the King who headed England at the time of the American Revolution — poor George had periods of delusion that may have been due to something called porphyria.
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