Honestly, if you both know that going into it, it's fine,
You don't get that feeling of cliff-diving abandon that you get from letting your love instincts run wild, but it doesn't fuck up your life in the same way either when it ends.
Eeeeeehh, this is how the czarist system (and really monarchies in general) always worked. The king is the Good Father; fuckups or moral failings are because of the Bad Councilors.
People know the deal going in.
He may be weak, probably is, but I don't think this specifically is necessarily the sign to look for.
Sounds like Brazil has a law where you need to have a designated point of contact in-country, notified Musk of that, and he refused.
I guess Russia and Saudi Arabia care less about manipulating elections and stoking violence in Brazil than in other countries. Gotta focus.