It’s hard to build an alliance when one of the partners flips their fundamental goals every 4 years.
W. and Blair were in cahoots wrt Iraq.
Start with Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address, Bush's 16 words: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” and go from there.
Leaked British documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Iraq_document_leak
Bush–Blair 2003 Iraq memo : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush–Blair_2003_Iraq_memo
September Dossier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Dossier
Chilcot Report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Inquiry
> That the next republican president [...] is a continuation of the theme.
Leaving out EU part, I agree with the continuation. W. commuted the prison sentence of Scooter Libby (convicted of obstruction for interfering with an investigation the bush admin outed a CIA operative in retribution for her husband being outspoken that the intelligence that lead to Iraq where "twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat"). Trump fully pardoned him in 2018. Also, we have Bushism's and Trumpism's. It's uncanny how George W. was like a beta version of the full featured Trump Gold release. Both are/were figureheads that had people running them, the hanging chads 2000 election kerfuffle-fraud in Florida (of all places) that lead to SCOTUS appointing W. as president etc; it's almost as if that deep state maga likes to talk about is real.
Current administration is just bat shit crazy and hungry for personal gain.
This started with Trump and Project 2025 and whatever the tea party mixes in there.