Are you a petty revengeful person? Do you retaliate? Does every little insult gnaw at your gut and the only way to stop it is to double down, hit back tenfold and then keep attacking attacking attacking attacking attacking? Small little weak people do that. They must be adored and worshipped and obeyed or there is he** to pay. The confident people let things slide off their backs and ignore the irrelevant unimportant to focus on the things that matter. I don't know how many "dissidents" Putin has had murdered. Duterte in the Philippines? Assad in Syria? All madmen despotice dictators. The template for all future "leaders"?