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    Whenever you look at political maps of the world, especially historical maps, you might

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    notice huge clusters of different states all governing very closely to one-another, often

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    with one powerful country commanding them all. These smaller countries are often classified

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    under one of the game of politics‘ most well known classifications, puppet states.

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    So what is a puppet state and what does it mean to be in this kind of relationship?

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    First, to put it short and boringly, a puppet state is really just a country that is-- in

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    a sense-- controlled by another country. However “controlled” can have a lot of different

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    meanings in this context, but usually means that the government of one country either

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    completely controls or merely sponsors the government of the puppet country. Puppet states

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    might seem little more than NPCs at times, but they are completely independent of the

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    puppeteer state, they generally have their own governments, political systems, police,

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    military, laws, and national symbols, but they aren’t fully independent to completely

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    pursue their own interests. In a sense, puppet states are completely independent states that

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    essentially act in subservience to another government. Obviously, this is completely

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    different to an alliance, where two or more players sign a mutual agreement with one-another,

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    even if there’s a bit of a power gap between them. The origin of the term is fairly obvious,

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    since actual puppets might be their own things completely separate from the body of the puppeteer,

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    but the puppeteer still controls whatever the puppet does (that’s kind of what a puppet

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    is after all). So how does a country end up as a puppet state? Well very simply, a puppet

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    state can be formed by military defeat, government-sponsored coups, or partial absorption into a master

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    state. There are and have been numerous examples

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    of puppet states throughout history in various different legacy servers, but I should probably

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    warn you first that these are going to be some controversial examples (basically all

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    the modern examples Wikipedia cites are some degree of controversial). Some of the most

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    famous geopolitical puppeteers throughout history include the Soviet Union and Imperial

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    Japan. By many accounts the republics of the Soviet Union as well as its allies within

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    the Eastern Bloc could be considered puppet states, since Poland, East Germany, Romania,

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    etc. were all fully independent states that nonetheless followed Moscow‘s command, and

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    the constituent republics of the USSR were more or less that but even closer to Moscow.

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    Japan also set up numerous puppet states across East and Southeast Asia during WWII, all once

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    again with governments bowing down to Tokyo. Although there are countless other examples

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    throughout history, there are no real modern examples of fully independent nations being

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    puppets of another, only disputably independent nations whose independence movements are often

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    largely propped by a larger country. Puppets can also refer to political parties, militant

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    groups, or even individual politicians, but this is largely the same arrangement just

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    smaller in scale. Puppet states however are just a more specific

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    classification of what are known as client states. ‘Client state’ is really kind

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    of an umbrella term that can describe many different things, including associated states

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    (small countries with various free association agreements with larger nations, namely Niue

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    and the Cook Islands with New Zealand or Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau with the United

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    States), vassal states (an older term referring to small states in a mutual agreement with

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    a larger state, usually exchanging military support for various benefits), satellite states

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    (really similar to puppet states, but mainly think of the Eastern Bloc to the USSR), protectorates

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    (basically dependent territories that act more or less independently with regard to

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    local politics but are still more or less part of the sphere of influence of a larger

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    power), tributary states (subservient states protected by more powerful states in return

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    for a regular tribute), and also puppet states themselves. Basically a client state refers

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    to any state that finds itself politically, militarily, or economically subordinate to

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    another more powerful state, in this case known as the controlling state.

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    All this is a practice that more or less took off in the Classical Antiquity update in ancient

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    Greece, Rome, and Persia, who would often make smaller neighboring states into subservient

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    tributary states. The Ottoman Empire also set up a vast network of vassal states, notably

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    including Crimea, Wallachia, Mecca, and even Aceh. These states generally had commercial

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    value to the Ottomans and also often served as buffer states. The US is also sometimes

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    said to have made the friendly regimes of Indonesia, the Philippines, South Vietnam,

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    Iran and several others as some form of client states during the Cold War, that is fully

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    independent relations with beneficially friendly relations to the government of the US.

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    Speaking of the US in the 20th century, here‘s a related term you might enjoy, banana republics.

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    Not to be confused with the department store, banana republics are small countries that

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    are politically unstable yet resource rich, often motivating a richer country to enact

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    its influence to gain access to said resources. The term was coined in observance of the practices

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    happening in Latin America throughout the 20th century. See, Americans love bananas,

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    but bananas are native to Southeast Asia, and if you‘ve ever been there you‘ll know

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    it is hot and humid, but most of the US‘s tiles aren‘t as hot and humid (aside from

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    Hawaii and Florida, but Hawaii is in the middle of the ocean and we don‘t speak of Florida).

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    Enter Latin (mainly Central) America, where bananas and plantains (including many varieties

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    that most Euro-American players have never heard of because they can‘t really survive

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    the long journey as well) can grow in abundance, and where many nations (mainly Honduras) don‘t

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    have the stablest institutions, allowing US banana companies to come in, exploit cheap

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    local labor, and get the US government to overthrow the local government if they don‘t

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    fully satisfy their needs. Seriously just watch the Sam O’Nella video for more.

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    Regardless of how you define it, these states are all under the suzerainty of another country,

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    not sovereignty, suzerainty. Suzerainty is a term used to describe basically this whole

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    thing of one country under the influence of another country as a vassal, puppet, tributary

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    state, or anything else we covered in this video. All these overall groupings of countries

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    holding power and influence over other countries can be called “hegemonies” and one thing

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    that is often a consequence of clashing hegemonies are proxy wars, much like those fought between

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    the US and the USSR during the Cold War, as the actual fighting happened all around the

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    world but never directly between the US and the USSR. Nowadays however, international

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    law doesn’t recognize sovereign states as being under the suzerainty of another country,

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    similar occurrences do happen between mutually agreeing states (though usually I believe

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    that’s just called an alliance with one certain very powerful member), and there are

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    states today deemed puppet states, though these are mostly non-sovereign territories

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    being named puppets almost more as a kind of call-out. In the days where being an empire

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    is frowned upon, no one wants to be seen as a puppet master.

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The example sentences of SUZERAINTY in videos (2 in total of 2)

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Definition and meaning of SUZERAINTY

What does "suzerainty mean?"

noun
Domain of a suzerain.