Expansionist

Japan's expansionist policies alienated it from other countries in the League of Nations and by the mid-1930s brought it closer to Germany and Italy, who had both pursued similar expansionist policies.

Oxford: Osprey Pub. Stagg has examined the fate of the expansionist cause proposed by Hacker and Pratt in the 1920s: this 'expansionist' interpretation of the war can still be found in textbooks currently in use in the nation's high schools.

I am not for the Chinese and their expansionist plans.

In rhetoric that has become trite, he insisted was the victim of Western encroachment, as opposed to the expansionist invader of its sovereign neighbours, and that NATO was using the war in as a means to overthrowing Putin’s rule.

Since invading Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year, Russia has shifted the focus of its rhetoric from “denazifying” and “demilitarizing” its neighbor to confronting what is says is an aggressive and expansionist U.S.-led NATO alliance.

This expansionist policy aimed at undermining processes of regional integration that were then picking up steam.

A lasting containment of Moscow's expansionist and hegemonic ambitions is only possible through a more or less just Russian-Ukrainian peace.

And while proponents would argue that it worked — the Cold War never erupted into World War III — nuclear weapons did not make nationalist sentiments, historical grievances, or expansionist tendencies go away, of which the war in is a painful reminder.

For Russia, the battlefield is most certainly not limited to Ukraine, and when it comes to expanding it, the Baltic region holds a special place both in Russia’s imperialist past and Moscow’s expansionist present.

I also take issue with the idea that any nation-state is here to stay forever—they’re often militant and expansionist resulting in shifting boundaries and labels, and things sure have changed over the years—heck, remember Empires?

The Yinon Plan for the Middle East contained the key elements of the “Greater Israel” scheme reflected in the expansionist policies—underwritten by the United States—that Tel Aviv has implemented over more than eight decades.

As a relatively small nation with a neighboring country that is aggressive, demographically exploding, and openly harboring an expansionist ideology, Eritrea is well advised to protect itself from a demographic war.

Both countries will then try to exert their influence on the country through various proxies as part of their expansionist strategies.

Somalis harbor deep historical grievances against Ethiopia, historically an expansionist and Christian kingdom, that fuels irredentism to this day.

The golden days for him were a period of constant expansionist wars marked by the environmental destruction of their own planet, and it saw the rejection of the pacifist government of Duchess Satine Kryze.

Turkey is growing into quite the expansionist power.

When the PPP came into power in 1992, one of their first acts was to destroy the Foreign Ministry by burning documents and disintegrating the cadres of diplomats which had successfully kept the expansionist ambitions of Suriname and Venezuela at bay.

Carol Danvers was a US Air Force pilot before she became a superhero after her DNA was fused with the DNA of Kree, a race of belligerent and expansionist extraterrestrials.

Far from being the land of the free and the brave, the US, he explains, has always been an expansionist, predatory and racist country.

When she was asked to choose between the IMF factions that backed austerity measures and those that favoured expansionist policies, she appeared to give her blessing to austerity.