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puppet state

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Noun1.puppet state - a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed
authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities"


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Actually he should have known better that the Saudis (and the Americans) wanted nothing more than to see a former puppet state of the former collapsed Soviet Union fall down like its counterparts everywhere else in the world.
The speakers bitterly criticized the imposition of sanctions on press in certain parts of the world including the Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir state where media was badly suffering from the sanctions imposed by the Indian occupation forces including the puppet state government.
00 Hardcover World of East Asia DS784 In the 1930s and 1940s the puppet state of Manchuko, situated in northeast China, became home to more than 320,000 Japanese emigrants who intended to become farmers in a rural utopia.
 
 
 
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