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Revanchism

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Revanchism 

a policy of the chauvinistic circles of a country that has been defeated in war, aimed at preparing for a new war under the pretext of restoring the prewar boundaries and the prewar system of interstate relations.
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Ramifications of this Russian revanchism caught many in the West by surprise.
Russian irredentism after the Georgian Blitzkrieg by Rasizade, Alec / Contemporary Review
The reason may well be a fear - however unlikely it may seem at present - of Japanese military revanchism.
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Even in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when a degree of misplaced revanchism might have been understandable for the first Israelis, few of them wanted anything to do with ideological forebears to Lieberman like Menachem Begin.
Israelis vote for more of the same by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
 
 
 
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