That still doesn't really do it. The leadership still has to give up all control and dodge prison or execution in the coming coup, and witness their nation, a nuclear superpower, descend into civil war, the possible destruction of everything they have worked for. Plus now you risk having a rogue nuclear superpower.
At that point, even if you are a puppet, why not just refuse to obey, they cannot compel you. Look at Saddam Hussein, former puppet of the US, who then became an enemy, or Manuel Noriega, brought to power by the CIA, then an enemy, or Osama Bin Laden, a US asset trained and directed by the US to fund and recruit Jihadists against the Soviets in Afghanistan, or look at Hamas, empowered by Israel to destabilise the Palestinians by painting them all as extremists, then Hamas got off its leash, or the Tamil tigers, backed by India to destabilise Sri Lanka to hamper an alliance between it and Pakistan, only for the tigers to start attacks in Tamil regions in India.
When it suits a puppet to cut its strings, it does. There are very few cases of proxy groups falling on their own sword for their backers benefit, usually they just go rogue, or leaders of puppet regimes doing anything that harms themselves, usually they push policies that disadvantage their population by resisting labour improvements or tax increases on foreign corporations or selling off national assets or resources at a discount, or buying military equipment or infrastructure projects that were not needed on the nations dime, but the leaders themselves in return are paid or kept in power by their backer, they don't just serve a foreign nation out of a sense of loyalty or duty, but personal greed. It just does not fit in this case, to so blatantly and publicly commit treason.
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