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Julani’s regime is entirely reliant on turkey and erdoghan 93.106.161.99 (talk) 12:03, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source? Fixer09 (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2025 (UTC) (sock strike)[reply]

Do any RS explicitly call them puppet states? @Datawikiperson ping Placeholderer (talk) 23:53, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Forget it. It was a good thing you reverted it. Just not the others. Datawikiperson (talk) 17:00, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it really undisputed? I see why Abkhazia & South Ossetia are called this way but even North Cyprus is listed as disputed Braganza (talk) 12:30, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. We really need much better sources than what we currently have. One of the sources cited goes as far as to claim that Belarus was already "de facto annexed". Of course, the author of this piece is not a surprise. Another source cited also refers to Lukashenko as a puppet, which is not the same. The rest belongs to think tanks. Mellk (talk) 05:48, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]