“It’s a challenge to come up with a historical leader of a country who was such an obvious figurehead. “
Took me a second, but I think Konstantin Chernenko is about the closest you can get in comparison.
“I’m a dinner jacket” in Iran was supposedly just an ignorant figure head. My former Iranian neighbors said of him “No one had ever heard of him before he got in office. he didn’t even own a house! They found someone stupid enough to say what they wanted him to say like it was his idea, and they put him in office.”
“It’s a challenge to come up with a historical leader of a country who was such an obvious figurehead. “
Took me a second, but I think Konstantin Chernenko is about the closest you can get in comparison.
Hindenburg in his last years.