vassalage
noun
vas·sal·age
ˈva-sə-lij 
1
: a position of subordination or submission (as to a political power)
2
: the state of being a vassal
3
: the homage, fealty, or services due from a vassal
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Putin has too much at stake to end the war himself, but the same is not true of those around him who do not wish to see Russia reduced to indefinite impoverishment; drained of physical resources, youth, and talent; and subjugated to a state of permanent vassalage to China.
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Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024
Russia is now locking itself into vassalage to China.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
America’s social contract was that liberty and self-determination was a more powerful engine of human freedom than vassalage and the divine right of kings.
—TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
Ukrainians want a decent, self-governing society, rather than a vassalage of a tyrannical nation that, while sharing much with them, has never respected them.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
What’s more, Johnson has insisted that during 2020, the United Kingdom will also negotiate a trade agreement with the United States to prove that the British have escaped European vassalage.
—David Reynolds, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2020
With the vassalage of American executives, woke-corporate cancel culture will become more obnoxious than ever before.
—Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review, 14 July 2021
Favereau writes: The Russian principalities experienced extraordinary economic vitality during their vassalage to the Horde.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
Trump is trying to use his vertical of vassalage to thwart the electoral system.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2020
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Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024
Russia is now locking itself into vassalage to China.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
America’s social contract was that liberty and self-determination was a more powerful engine of human freedom than vassalage and the divine right of kings.
—TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
Ukrainians want a decent, self-governing society, rather than a vassalage of a tyrannical nation that, while sharing much with them, has never respected them.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
What’s more, Johnson has insisted that during 2020, the United Kingdom will also negotiate a trade agreement with the United States to prove that the British have escaped European vassalage.
—David Reynolds, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2020
With the vassalage of American executives, woke-corporate cancel culture will become more obnoxious than ever before.
—Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review, 14 July 2021
Favereau writes: The Russian principalities experienced extraordinary economic vitality during their vassalage to the Horde.
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
Trump is trying to use his vertical of vassalage to thwart the electoral system.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2020
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“Vassalage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vassalage. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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