How to recruit, retain and control your vassals
The strategy for recruiting, holding, and controlling proxy states, or "vassals," involves several key almost Mafia-type mechanisms:
1. Political Capture: This is achieved through significant financial influence, such as lobbying money and campaign donations, as well as threats to the elected status or health of the candidate, and "soft power" generally, which ensures that political systems and leaders align with US interests. The US also influences government formation and captures intelligence services within these states.
2. Security Integration and Training: The US builds up and partially runs the internal security apparatus of these states, trains and arms specific military or paramilitary groups, provides ISR, to exert control and enforce desired policies and actions.
3. Information Control: Funding NGOs and controlling a significant portion of the media in these proxy states helps shape public opinion and maintain influence, preventing dissent or independent decision-making.
4. Strategic Exploitation: Proxies are used as expendable fronts to absorb conflict, blame, and retaliatory damage, allowing the US to advance its geopolitical objectives while maintaining plausible deniability. Their resources are also exploited to serve US interests.
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