marionetka în engleză:

a dictator who was perceived as being an American puppet

Now put down the puppet and come sit on my lap.

The Foreign Minister was a puppet.

I grab a puppet, a puppet I know he loves, Iago, the evil psychic to the villain Jafar in “Aladdin.” You know this character, Gilbert Gottfried.

I have lived a life of a puppet of fortune.

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!