not a fed btw 🥺#darpa #palantir #surveillance #unitedstatesofamerica #creatorsearchinsights A puppet state is a country that possesses all the external trappings of an independent nation—such as a flag, a national anthem, a constitution, and a formal government—but is actually entirely controlled, directed, and sustained by a foreign superpower. The local regime serves merely as a legal fiction to mask the dominant country's imperial, strategic, or economic exploitation of the territory. The pu