I obviously want nothing to do with that.
I'd really been looking forward to building Vespa infantry divisions.) (Aren't I supposed to at least receive a call to arms choice?) That war would have turned out profitably, except that after I spent 5000 points in the peace conference to annex half the Italian mainland, all those states were just given instead to another participant when the peace conference window closed (if anyone can explain wth that happened, I'd be extremely grateful. The Italians declared against my French puppet and I was drawn in automatically. First, they got me into a war against the Italian faction (ahistorical enabled).
I also don't see any options in their diplomacy tab or in my manage subjects window to kick them out of the nest. In the manage subjects view (tfv enabled), there's an option to decrease my puppet's autonomy, but if I want to increase their autonomy, the opposite side of the autonomy bar isn't clickable.