Dictators generally have put up an act of greatness and how nothing wrong is happening when they talk in media or whatever.
But let’s say Putin meets with Kim, do they… just drop the act and talk normally? Does Kim still act like everything is great and he’s the leaderTM?
In all my private and personal meeting with dictators I find that they’re a bit different but they never stop jockeying to be “alpha”. Most have that narcissistic brain that tells them to use everyone around them to feel superior because no one but them is actually real.