satraps

Russia is not PRC puppet, there aren't comparable political arrangements unlike US and her satraps for PRC to pressure RU.

Actually it is the other way, INC fragmenting into regional satraps - that gave BJP enough wind behind its sail.

Sorry, half of humanity has an account on Facebook or one of its satraps, numerically speaking.

The provincial governors were not quite Persian satraps, nor the warlords of the Nationalist era, but they had relatively wide latitude.

All battles the British fought were through proxies (loyal princely satraps) and very rarely did the British actually involve in the fight.

The peaceful, liberal, pro-democratic reformers in the middle east seem to have gotten defeated and tortured by the CIA and their local satraps.

Iran is 100m large country + 100s millions more shia core / axis of resistance supressed by small regional satraps empowered by outside forces.

One can argue that the popularity of Modi and the other regional satraps (with language based sub nationalism) is a result of this institutional bias.

PRC on the other hand is large and capable enough to negotiate/fight for better, and could feasibly turn US (and satraps) into North Korea as well.

Sure the US' broken dealership laws and red-scare tantrums will stop these cars selling there, and in their economic satraps, but for the global majority countries there's no such barrier.

Be it Sanghis, Commies, Congressis or any flavour of regional satraps, I can't think of a single state government that actually did a halfway decent job.

-Align as satraps and be subsidized by US.

This shift in power was instrumental in the British devising the Annexation policy called "Doctrine of Lapse" which was signed by these unsuspecting satraps.

>keep its allies in line With that kind of characterization then label US "allies" for what they are, satraps.

Central government and Satraps) were adopted by and outlived the Macedonians.