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  • noun an advocate of irredentism

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Examples

  • I do not find it far fetched to imagine a not too distant future where large irridentist movements take control of the southwest.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » You’re Making It Difficult 2010

  • Pakistan, as the irridentist party, would welcome it; indeed, the attacks by Pakistan-sponsored groups in Kashmir and elsewhere in India may be aimed in part in provoking the U.S. to intervene on the dispute.

    Dr. Charles G. Cogan: Hands Off Kashmir! 2010

  • The fact that business-to-business solutions alone can't fix the current set of monetary problems linked to sovereign debt flies in the face of the Capitalism 4.0 paradigm being floated by key members of the Davos-based World Economic Forum, projects ideological ambiguity among its leadership and invites irridentist critics to continue to propagate notions of a hidden world government that appeal to American nativists and some on the European right.

    Eric Ehrmann: China, Currency Manipulation and Globalism: The Big Backstory Eric Ehrmann 2010

  • Simply run your eye round its borders to the east - 2 unstable sunni polities with the likelihood of taliban influenced or dominated governments, one of which has nuclear bombs and irridentist claims on Iran's provinces; look north at increasing Russian influence in the successor state to the USSR; north west are the caucusus republics where Russia and the USA are playng great power games and there is a wish to get Georgia into NATO; Iraq is unstable but the USA has indulged the Kurds to de-stabilise the minorities in Turkey and Iran.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

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