puppet regime
Noun
Meaning
puppet regime (plural puppet regimes)
(politics) Synonym of puppet state
Synonyms
Examples
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
In retaliation India regime changed the Rajapaksa administration installing a puppet regime.
The puppet regime stated he died of heart failure but later said he resisted the guards and fell down the stairs and was taken to hospital, where he died.
These third party mercenary invasions have totally failed to secure the puppet regime; in fact they have aroused greater nationalist opposition.
In power, his government was a puppet regime with little authority, and the country was effectively under German control.
They united the Slovene anti-Communist counter-insurgence into the Slovene Home Guard and appointed a puppet regime in the Province of Ljubljana.