Depending on how you look at it, smaller countries can be said to have been either wilfully used as pawns, or just inadvertently caught between the powers, as collateral damage.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/russia-ukraine-singapore-shanmugam-small-countries-regional-cooperation-rivalry-3333796?cid=cna_flip_070214

He was found guilty of wilfully promoting hatred against women last August.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/anti-feminist-blogger-sentenced-1.6729577?cmp=rss

He was interviewed under caution on Thursday (July 20) and admitted wilfully obstructing a policing support officer acting in the execution of their duty.

Source: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/bradford-man-cautioned-after-blocking-police-speed-camera-van-with-tipper-truck-load-4228697

In his statement, he added: “But they have wilfully chosen to ignore the truth because from the outset their purpose has not been to discover the truth, or genuinely to understand what was in my mind when I spoke in the Commons.”

Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/priti-patel-boris-johnson-quit-as-mp-partygate-investigation-covid-inquiry-b1086887.html

Kirklees’ Tories had previously urged the councillor to resign, accusing him of “wilfully misleading” the council through his handling of the case with former councillor Fazila Loonat.

Source: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/council/former-leader-of-kirklees-council-reflects-on-time-in-role-following-resignation-4236969

McDonald pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to wilfully neglecting and exposing the child in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering or injury to health.

Source: https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/23232939.drumchapel-crime-woman-guilty-neglecting-toddler-avoids-jail/?ref=rss

Subsequently Pakistan wilfully waged a war against us in the year 1965.

Source: https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/homage-to-lal-bahadur-shastri/

“The Resident Electoral Commissioner has wilfully refused, failed or neglected to comply with the orders of this Honourable Tribunal.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/05/05/alleged-contempt-aa-asks-tribunal-to-jail-enugu-rec/

They have wilfully ignored the trauma they are inflicting on people who are sent to the Bibby Stockholm, and the hundreds being accommodated in former military barracks."

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-asylum-seeker-dies-onboard-31654234