Nearly all the “bad” leaders in the foreign countries (with less democratic régimes) and many irregular/extremist combatants globally have the highest standards of academic education worldwide; equal to and in some cases well above those that of the leaders of the Nordic countries and Angela Merkel (who is herself very smart).
Add to this the tech company leaders who have as much power if not more than some nation states.
We already have a lot of smart people competing with each other globally for resources, control of markets etc and that has put the world in a dangerous place.
