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[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wouldn't argue that it's a stooge at all. Yeah, the US holds an outsized influence on its constituent states, but that's only because it holds an outsized influence over geopolitics on general. The same goes for China and Russia (the latter maybe moreso prior to the Ukraine war).