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Proxy war (n.) is the war a superpower attends without signing the guest book.
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Proxy war (n.) is how two nuclear powers fight to the last someone else.
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Proxy war (n.) is a fight between two countries held in a third one's living room.
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Proxy war (n.) is how great powers duel without the inconvenience of being hit.
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Proxy war (n.) is a war whose dead and whose sponsors live in different time zones.