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But that meant Assad and his family giving up a country that they treated for years as their personal fief.

The country, they warn, is barreling into a protracted conflict that could lead to anarchy or rival fiefs, like Somalia in the 1990s or Libya after 2011.

He is building it out into a corrupt, theocratic fief across North Dakota and the open expanses of the Upper Midwest.

Disney arguably allowed Mr. Perlmutter to keep a fief long after it made financial sense to do so.

Mr. Monastyrsky, like Mr. Zelensky, took office pledging to root out the corruption that had long bedeviled Ukraine’s government, in particular the interior ministry’s history of operating as a separate political fief.