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At the time of writing, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin has racked up over 125 million impressions on X. The first 25 minutes were almost entirely devoted to the Russian President’s lecture on 800 years of Slavic history, which we’ll leave to the Kremlinologists to fact-check. But commentators were quick to compare Putin’s mental acuity with Joe Biden’s lack thereof. At around the same time the interview was published, the US president gave a press conference in which he defended his “fine memory”… by going on to confuse the Mexican and Egyptian leaders. The 2024 election is already shaping up to be one of the wildest yet…