proxy war in English

noun
1
a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved.
People are supposed to ‘liberate’ themselves, not rely on some external force to come to their land and fight a proxy war for them.

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1. Proxy War is good when it works.

2. We can say it was a typical proxy war.

3. Russia's proxy war with Europe using the middle ease WILL fail.

4. India, and Parkistan, many would say fighting a proxy war in Afghnastan.

5. So Can you explain that, India and Parkistan fighting a proxy war in Afghnastan?

6. Despite what many analysts call a proxy war with Iran, the effect on the oil supply seems limited.

7. Talking about proxy war, who else was behind the military dictators in S. America, and training camps in Colorado?

8. Last time China and the US had fought a proxy war in Korea, the allies have lost 20010 men, 4000 of them Americans.

9. Rival cliques are competing with one another to see who can get the most coverage of their exploits in a proxy war of supremacy.

10. Yahoo and Weiner parted ways when the company decided to get rid of some of its executives due to its proxy war with investor Carl Icahn.

11. Each side was supported by external powers and the conflict expanded, becoming a proxy war in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

12. About its engagement in that decade-long proxy war with the United States, resulting in the loss of countless lives and the destruction of that "small country's" infrastructure?

13. S. puppet, and Russian diplomats stormed out of several Security Council meetings in protest. ) From Angola to Afghanistan, nearly every Cold War conflict was a proxy war.

14. Microsoft offered to acquire Yahoo last year, but when Yahoo completely refused to entertain the offer, Icahn started the proxy war in order to remove Yahoo's Board of Directors.

15. But at home they also hinted that this was a proxy war with America which had tried to muscle its way into what Russia calls "the region of privileged interest".

16. Ultimately, all this will likely produce a fragmentation of the country and a proxy war between Saudi-supported Sunni and Iranian-supported Shia, with the Kurds eventually going their own way.