Yep. I think there should be mandatory training among world leaders on boundary pushing techniques by people with narcissistic disorders. Giving this any attention beyond dismissing it and moving on only feeds the narcissist to keep testing limits and pushing boundaries.

Many an abused spouse talk about how their narcissist other wore them down and eventually they succumbed to horrible power dynamics. In the US, we’ve been that spouse for a long time. Now the entire freaking world is the spouse.