He did not give up East Germany, a vassal state to Moscow, to join a united Germany that's a vassal state to the European Union and Washington.
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The patron would help the vassal with gear, advice, and so on, while the vassal would generate XP out of thin air that would be given to the patron.
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It's the reason Korea is a vassal state to them.
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This common rulebook means that we are essentially a vassal state.
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More important, Norway is not the "vassal state" that Brexiteers claim.
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"You know, the Philippines is not a vassal state," he replied.
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Some pro-Brexit politicians have said it would make Britain a "vassal state".
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President Trump's America treats Europe either as a competitor or as a vassal.
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Lawal, Newton, Linton Vassal, but they would be competing with new arrival Phil Davis.
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I don't believe for one second that his strategy is to be China's vassal.
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EEA membership, they say, would be Brexit in name only, making Britain a vassal state.
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" JACOB REES-MOGG, LEADER OF HARD-BREXIT FACTION OF CONSERVATIVE MPs "This is the vassal state.
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" JACOB REES-MOGG, LEADER OF HARD-BREXIT FACTION OF CONSERVATIVE LAWMAKERS "This is the vassal state.
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China is losing its grip over North Korea, its partner who would not be a vassal.
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"North Korea was never a vassal state," said Shi Yinhong, also a professor at Renmin University.
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Brexit supporters say that remaining in any EU grouping will reduce Britain to a "vassal state".
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When Daenerys has taken up her crown and wants to use the North as a vassal state.
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Another salient difference is that the United States is, rather than a fascist vassal, an advanced democracy.
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"It is vassal state stuff," Johnson said, adding that he would vote against such an unacceptable accord.
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Je ne crois pas une seule seconde que sa stratégie soit d'être le vassal de la Chine.
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For decades, Saudi Arabia, which is 186 times as large, treated Qatar as a virtual vassal state.
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This concession to Russia is significant not just because it removes some pressure on Moscow's vassal in Damascus.
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A superior civilization demanded deference and tribute from vassal neighbors and did not hesitate to use military force.
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Yet the biggest political issue on transition is the assertion by Brexiteers that Britain will become a "vassal state".
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The outlet often refers to the South Korean government as a puppet or vassal state of the United States.
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Brexit campaigners say the deal leaves Britain as little more than a vassal state, unable to break free of Brussels.
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Russia cut the subsidies it uses to keep its one-time Soviet vassal afloat, worsening an economic downturn in Belarus.
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Mr Shestun was feuding with a more powerful vassal, Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow region in which Serpukhov sits.
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As Greenland drifts away from its old colonial master, it might need to worry about becoming a vassal state of another.
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Pyongyang has continually assailed Australia as a "vassal country" of the United States in recent releases from North Korean state media.
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No longer an impoverished vassal state languishing next to an empire, Ireland has developed a bustling economy within the European Union.
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He soured on the arrangement eventually because the games were overshadowed, "reduced to the role of humiliated vassal", as he put it.
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Marvin Gaye III tells TMZ ... no one in his family is backing "Sexual Healing" -- the film music mogul Vassal Benford is producing.
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North Korea has continually assailed Australia as a "vassal country" of the United States in recent releases from North Korean state media.
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Such a failure would turn Britain into "a vassal state" until the bloc decided to move on to trade talks, he said.
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It would render Britain a "vassal state" that, to add insult to injury, would have to pay the EU a vast annual levy.
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What is less clear is whether Bhutan, an ally which India has in the past treated as a vassal, really wanted Indian help.
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Our O.T. sources tell us he made the deal with music mogul Vassal Benford who owns the Benford hologram series in 4D presence.
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"Indeed, you are a sort of vassal state during the transition," said the green Belgian lawmaker, adding the transition could last five years.
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In Asheron's Call, we had the concept of a "patron" and "vassal" relationship, where newer players would "swear allegiance to" more experienced ones.
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Egypt is no more likely to become a Russian vassal state in the Middle East as it was to be an American one.
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Boris Johnson, who quit as foreign secretary over Mrs May's Chequers plan in July, called it "vassal-state stuff" that should be chucked out.
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Before we became a miserable vassal state for global finance and private contractors, this period used to involve high-budget drama and nature documentaries.
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In the case of Cuba, the choice is clear; a neutral neighbor and perhaps future friend, or a revitalized Russian vassal at our door?
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Vietnam is hard-wired to resist and resent the notion that it is in any way a vassal of the overweening empire to its north.
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Turkey has some valid complaints against the United States; Turkey is not a vassal, and we should expect it will continue to pursue its interests.
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He stressed that his team, Dallas Showtyme, was the vassal of no sneaker company, although he allowed that he had an "affiliation" with Under Armour.
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But Turkey continues to treat Kosovo like a vassal state, impinging on its sovereignty while expanding its cultural and commercial influence inside its neighbor's borders.
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And he incorrectly described Slovenia as a former Soviet vassal state (it was, in fact, within the former Yugoslavia, which was outside the Iron Curtain).
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We will follow lots of its rules but will no longer have a role in making them, becoming what Mr Johnson rightly calls a "vassal state".
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, who once likened a status-quo transition to being a vassal state, said Britain had rolled over without even getting its tummy tickled.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, who once likened a status quo transition to being a vassal state, said Britain had rolled over without even getting its tummy tickled.
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He has said May's deal would render the U.K. a "vassal state," adding that anything other than a no-deal Brexit would constitute a national humiliation.
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Zimbabwe, long a thorn in the side of the western world, recently made the yuan its official currency, effectively making it an economic vassal state of China.
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Martin Howe, a pro-Brexit trade lawyer, complains that the phase-one deal could stop Britain securing trade deals elsewhere and turn it into a "vassal state".
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Earlier this week he dismissed a suggestion that Britain would be a "vassal state" and urged critics to focus on the opportunities of a future, looser relationship.
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It frequently started its travels as gifts from Chinese rulers to vassal states, before being traded by middlemen from places like India or Parthia, in modern-day Iran.
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The Philippines is not a vassal state, putang-ina ("son of a whore"), he exclaimed when asked whether Barack Obama might object to his bloody war on drugs.
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"[North Korea's] mode of attack, once launched, would be the precision strike to destroy only the military bases of the US and its vassal forces," the memo said.
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Selon son logiciel, l'Europe était le vassal des Etats-Unis, l'Union européenne est une espèce de cheval de Troie de l'OTAN, et l'OTAN, c'était l'expansion jusqu'à ses frontières.
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Mr. Fillon is not keen on social changes like same-sex marriage and chafes at being the "vassal" of America, as he put it in his speech here.
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That prompted grumbling among Japanese government officials and the public that he was trying to turn a pillar of the country's industrial prowess into a vassal of France.
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The principality to which the town belonged would spend the next 250 years as a vassal state to the Golden Horde, but not without more conflict and death.
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Saudi Arabia, particularly under the leadership of the crown prince, seems determined to turn Qatar into a semi-vassal state, and if he could, he would engineer regime change.
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Our Angeleno neighbors to the north are quick to dismiss us as a homogenous white bread wasteland, a vassal county only worth talking about because, hey, we have Disneyland!
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Throughout the day, one prominent Tory Brexiteer after another professed support for a plan that some of them had said would turn Britain into a slave or vassal state.
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That's a tall order: opponents of Brexit argue the plan is inferior to remaining in the union, while enthusiasts for leaving the EU say it makes Britain a "vassal state".
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Their list of demands would, if accepted, reduce Qatar to a vassal state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia worse than what it endured from independence in 1971 to 1990.
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" Another leading Brexiter, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said he was considering calling on May to quit over the deal, saying it would reduce Britain to the status of a "vassal state.
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Addressing a conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said Israeli control of West Bank land had turned Palestinian farmers into "mere vassal workers" and blocked development.
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The Japanese god of confectioners is in fact Tajimamori, a first-century vassal who, according to legend, was sent in search of a mystical fruit to revive the ailing emperor.
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The Chinese government has always viewed North Korea as a "vassal country," he said in an interview with Phoenix Television on Thursday, shortly before the North Korean editorial was published.
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During this period, Armenia has become increasingly dependent on Russian largess (economic, military, political) to the point of effectively serving a vassal of the Russian Federation and at its pleasure.
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But many British pro-Brexit lawmakers argue that this would make Britain a "vassal state", unable to do its own trade deals around the world and still overseen by EU judges.
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Koreans have long had a sense that, though China is often to be admired, it has over the centuries treated Korea as a vassal state or a prize to be coveted.
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The vassal-like professions of fealty from his cabinet the other day — feudalism meets Pyongyang — demonstrated why he likes Saudi Arabia so much and has such evident reservations about the Republic.
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Even before that, her enemies were circling — not least Mr. Johnson, who resigned from her cabinet after complaining that her deal would make Britain a vassal state of the European Union.
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" Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, a lawmaker with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior coalition partner in Germany, tweeted: "European citizens don't need a Trump vassal to tell them who to vote for.
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"If they found that they shared a great-uncle or one of them had been a vassal to a similar king, they would dismount, hug each other and swear loyalty," he said.
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Just as the plague decimated the Mongol khanates and splintered its grip on Eurasia, so too will the coronavirus encourage China's vassal states to look for other partners in the geopolitical marketplace.
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Brussels bureaucrats are intent on turning an enterprising nation into a vassal of the European super-state, he says, and the British establishment is too craven and corrupt to see what is happening.
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The world will devolve into a neo-imperial order, in which, if they are to tap into vital applications, other countries will have to become vassal states of one of the AI superpowers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit minister David Davis was forced to defend on Wednesday a transition deal with the European Union that leaves little changed, rejecting criticism that Britain will continue to be a "vassal state".
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the European Research Group of pro-Brexit Conservative MPs, said the deal amounted to a "failure to deliver on Brexit" and would make a "vassal state" of Britain.
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We cannot be a vassal state of China, neither can we demonize China the way it had been demonized by the West," he said, recommending that Asian countries seek to maintain their "own independent course.
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Worst of all, it would eliminate the basic principle of self-government Americans fought a revolution to win—only to now deny it to a vassal state, a century after the supposed end of our
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Bottom line: The Asian nations, with the exception of China's near-vassal states Cambodia and Laos, want U.S. leadership and are very concerned about the "America First" agenda and the withdrawal from many multilateral efforts.
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Beijing increasingly treated Myanmar like a vassal state, exploiting its natural resources for economic gain, and it seems the country's generals preferred to share power with a civilian government rather than cede power to China.
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Pushing the use of the Ukrainian language and instrumental in establishing a new independent Orthodox church, confectionary magnate Poroshenko, 53, has cast himself as the man to prevent Ukraine again becoming a Russian vassal state.
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In another excerpt about prospects of cooperation with France's neighbors, where the words were again the same as in Fillon's speech, Le Pen added that this would require France not being "a vassal" of Germany.
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By the time Cuba gained official independence from the United States, on May 20, 20193, Cuba had been transformed into a vassal state, which many Americans hoped would one day be annexed into the Union.
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Several agreed with the view of Martin Howe, a leading Eurosceptic lawyer, that they imply a "black hole" Brexit that turns Britain into a "vassal state" subject to EU rules while having no say in them.
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Pushing the use of the Ukrainian language and instrumental in establishing a new independent Orthodox church, the 53-year-old confectionary magnate casts himself as the man to prevent Ukraine again becoming a Russian vassal state.
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"No, we're not," Brexit minister Davis said when asked by pro-Brexit lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg whether Britain would be a "vassal state" because it would temporarily continue to accept ECJ rulings after leaving the bloc.
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North Korea will "continue bolstering the capabilities for self-defense and preemptive attack with the nuclear force as the pivot as long as the US and its vassal forces persist in nuclear threat," the report said.
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Since then, Britain and the world have been treated to a seemingly endless list of ideas and terminologies — backstops, hard Brexit, soft Brexit, blind Brexit, Canada-plus-plus, Norway-plus-plus, the Chequers plan, vassal state.
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In the speech, Kim referred to North Korea as a "nuclear and military power in the east" and warned the US and its "vassal forces to stop nuclear threat and blackmail," according to state news agency KCNA.
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Replacing the roughly 10.2 bcm of Russian gas each year from its annual consumption of 15 bcm to 16 bcm is a top priority, as it would reduce any leverage Moscow has over its former vassal state.
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In the messy aftermath of the war in Iraq, many such preachers constructed a revisionist interpretation of America's role in Kosovo's wars, arguing that the Americans had turned the country into its vassal, rather than saved it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Boris Johnson said the Brexit withdrawal agreement with Brussels was "vassal state stuff" that would not protect Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom, and said he would vote against it when it comes before parliament.
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"The main key to foiling the extremely vicious sanctions and pressure of the U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces and turning misfortune into a blessing is just self-reliance and the sci-tech strength," Kim said in an Oct.
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Things are likely to get uglier if the EU insists that the free movement of people is the price of a softer Brexit, with the UK Independence Party roaring back to life and Brexiteer MPs campaigning against Britain's "vassal status".
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"Our toughest counteraction against the U.S. and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive," North Korea's official KCNA news agency quoted its military as saying in a statement.
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Several thousand foreign militiamen have already died fighting for Assad, often in the fiercest fronts of the war, and Assad's regional enemies believe that will make him little more than a vassal for stronger allies who have their own agendas.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not be "vassal state" to the European Union during a transition period after Brexit, minister David Davis said on Wednesday, responding to criticism about plans to remain under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
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But hard-line Brexit supporters fear that Britain could end up being locked indefinitely into Europe's customs rule book, dashing their dream of breaking free and striking trade deals around the world — the so-called "vassal state" they warn about.
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But the deal has united critics at both ends of the spectrum: eurosceptics say it will make Britain a vassal state while EU supporters take a similar line, saying it will have to obey the rules of membership while foregoing the benefits.
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Russia cut the subsidies it uses to keep its one-time Soviet vassal afloat, worsening an economic downturn in Belarus that fueled a wave of unrest against Lukashenko, who has ruled the ex-Soviet state for nearly a quarter of a century.
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Fellow Conservative pro-Brexit lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg accused Davis of allowing Britain to become a vassal state during the transition period, saying it would leave in name only and would continue to pay into the bloc and adhere to its laws.
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The agreement, which envisages close economic ties with the EU, has united the opposing sides of the debate - pro-EU MPs who see it as the worst of all worlds and Brexit supporters who say it will make Britain a vassal state.
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The agreement, which envisages close economic ties with the EU, has united the opposing sides of the debate - pro-EU lawmakers who see it as the worst of all worlds and Brexit supporters who say it will make Britain a vassal state.
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That measure is anathema to the right wing of the Tory party, which regards it as a ruse to permanently render Britain a "vassal state," beholden to the bloc's rules and regulations with no say in them and no plausible way to escape.
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The army general said the Philippine defense minister would try to convince Duterte in a cabinet meeting next week to retain some useful exercises, but the Philippine side sought assurances from its U.S. counterparts that it would not be treated as a vassal state.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, who heads a hardline group of pro-Brexit Conservative lawmakers that could have enough members to topple May, has said Britain must stop accepting negotiating terms set by the EU and that current transition plans would render it a "vassal state".
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"The increased moves of the U.S. and its vassal forces to impose sanctions and pressure... will only increase our pace toward the ultimate completion of the state nuclear force," the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by its official KCNA news agency.
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The Foreign Office is cautious about jeopardising relations with the Kremlin on the cusp of Syrian talks in Geneva, whose outcome will affect both the refugee crisis and the threat from Islamic State terrorism, and which may turn on Russia's influence over its vassal in Damascus.
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More importantly, Russia, just like the Soviet Union, remains a bad actor, an anti-status quo player whose goal is to undermine any nation that is not its vassal and generally sow instability around the world, whether it be in Eastern Europe, the Middle East or Asia.
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In the days that followed, the Saudis and their allies imposed conditions that appeared designed to reduce Qatar to a vassal state; in order for the blockade to be lifted, the country would, among other things, have to close Al Jazeera and sever relations with Iran.
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ISIS was produced as a Sunni Muslim reaction to massive overreach by Iran in Iraq, where Iranian-backed Shiite militias and the Iraqi government forces of Nouri al-Maliki tried to crush all vestiges of Sunni power in that country and make it a vassal of Iran.
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I think that North Korea is still essentially an unruly vassal state of China, and how you negotiate this trade war stuff while at the same time figuring out how you keep North Korea on the path to this alleged denuclearization seems to me it&aposs very tricky.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the new head of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs (see Bagehot), dislikes vassal statehood so much that he thinks it would be more honest to extend Article 50's two-year deadline, though that would need unanimous agreement from the EU's members.
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Iran, home to the only constitution in the world with expansionism as a founding tenet, maintains vassal states or proxy militias in four Arab countries and Gaza; terror cells in the Gulf and reservoirs of recruitment in central Asia; and a web of lethal alliances across the African continent.
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But Mr. Choi is not a member of the Lee family and is expected to serve largely as a "vassal" caretaker who lacks the kind of sweeping authority and responsibility that Mr. Lee and his father have wielded in placing multibillion-dollar bets on investments or new technology.
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Such an extension would be difficult for May to sell at home, where her overall strategy has been criticised by all sides — Brexit campaigners accuse her of making Britain a vassal state, EU supporters say the offer is the worst of all worlds and others are increasingly frustrated over the talks.
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This unconventional view dovetails perfectly with the first geopolitical imperative of the Iron Quadrilateral and could be leveraged to find ways to assure that Russia does not, over time, become permanently estranged from the U.S. Should it do so, it may well become an energy vassal and arms dealer to China.
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Xcalumkín, she told us, had likely existed since the beginning of the millennium but, like most settlements in this part of the peninsula, would have flourished between the 8th and 10th centuries, part of a vast network of city-states and vassal towns that made up the classical Maya world.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested, without evidence, that the Iranian general, who was responsible for Iran's proxy wars throughout the Middle East and had helped spearhead the country's strategy to keep war-torn Iraq as a vassal state, was taken out because he was planning "imminent attacks" against Americans.
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Since then, her proposal to extend the transition period has stoked anger among Conservative eurosceptics, who fear she is leading Britain into a deal that will make Britain a "vassal state" indefinitely - unable ever to fully leave the EU or to forge its own free trade deals with other countries.
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