> Their disdain for nation building doesn't mean they don't want to
> invade.
> It means they want to invade, set up a puppet, and leave.
But, AFAICT, that means setting up the puppet and then dropping the strings. How, in general, does a powerful nation keep control of puppets it has set up? Economic pressure or military pressure, I guess. What else?
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