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But Liik, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the Russian leader, in seeking to make Ukraine a “vassal state,” could overreach.

He also characterized the antebellum North as “the mere cringing vassal of the South” and a section of the country that contained “lords” and “nobles” of its own that comprised an “aristocracy of the skin.”

He’d like to return us to the Middle Ages where he and people like Elon Musk ruled as King while the rest of us remain vassals to the throne.

Tbilisi Mayor and Georgian Dream general secretary Kakha Kaladze echoed his message, accusing "so-called friends of Georgia" of directly interfering in Saturday's forthcoming elections: "We refuse to be anyone’s vassal, following the wishes of others."

Sawai was magnificent for the way she deftly handled her character’s many facets — vassal, translator, warrior, lover, avenger.