It turns out that sometime back in 2006 or so, when Bush was in Moscow, he was served wine for dinner by Evgeny Prigozhin, who was at that time Putin’s caterer.
Bush finished his term as president and retired to Texas.
Meanwhile, Prigozhin became head warlord of Putin’s private army, Wagner. Then, he set up operations in Africa, got rich exploiting the natural resources there, brought his army back to mother Russia to help his buddy invade Ukraine, tried to pull a coup d’etat against him when the war didn’t go well, then got blown out of the sky with his fellow war pirates, ending up as a ball of fire.
As Bush said, at least he survived the encounter.