foreign superpower

Some seem to be playing the dangerous game of encouraging all sorts of separatism in Russia, for commercial reasons, or in the service of a foreign superpower.

Actually, the people of Iraq are under the rule of a foreign superpower that has declared itself to be the absolute authority in Iraq for the foreseeable future.

Bao Ninh is the 40-year-old author of a best-selling novel that for the first time describes the war between South and North not as a heroic struggle by noble Communists against American puppets but as bitter savagery between brothers, with the destructive participation of a foreign superpower.