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**Vichy got a lot of this from ''both'' sides
**Germany several times did this to recalcitrant clients who wanted to defect or weren't all that enthusiastic about the whole thing in the first place. Usually this ended in a German occupation. One notable exception was Finland which turned out to be as good at killing Germans as Russians.
*At one time in the 1800's a British ship was in a Turkish port when someone got the [[Sarcasm Mode|charming]] idea of holding an anti-Armenian [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|pogram.]] Whereupon the captain went on shore imperiously clad in all his brassy finery and told the locals, ransom-payment-american-citizens-not-protected-abroad
**On a similar occasion when a pogram took place with an American Warship in port the American Captain simply threatened to [[Death From Above|blow up the the town.]]
* During [[World War I]] the Germans made several attempts to subvert India, all unsuccessful but enough to cause nervousness in the British. At one time the Afghan tribes were starting to get yet another notion of going on Jihad and incidently plundering a lot. So the British governor at Peshawar invited hundreds of chiefs to a jirga(diplomatic congress) along with those of their followers who had come to decorate their bosses dignity or just to enjoy the partying. At the jirga the British governor gave them an increase in subsidy as a [[Sarcasm Mode|generous gift of gratitude]] for their [[Blatant Lies|loyal friendship.]] During the feast the British governor had them [[Sarcasm Mode|entertained]] by having the British Bomber Command do fly overs and target practice. As a result the tribes decided to be peaceful.
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