Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, because they've come to stay, "the Russians," as they're often called, may in the long run be part of the salvation of their new homeland. They joined the aliyah (literally, "the ascent") in order to move up in the world. They didn't leave an expansionist, totalitarian empire that repressed its minorities only to become citizens of a garrison state at war with its neighbors as well as with 1.7 million embittered, disfranchised and mutinous Palestinians...
Western officials did not exempt Tudjman from fault. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The Croatian government is far from blameless or democratic, and it has severely discriminated against Serbs living in Croatia." But Milosevic's aims are expansionist, and success on his part threatens to undo everything the E.C. stands...
When the U.S. tried to raise its concern over the Soviet Union's abuses of human rights, Moscow would indignantly reject "interference in our internal affairs." American protests against the U.S.S.R.'s expansionist behavior evoked a similar combination of stonewalling and self-righteousness: the Soviet Union, its representatives insisted, had rights equal to those of the U.S., including the right to throw its weight around in every corner of the globe. In practice, that meant a license to invade other countries, underwrite leftist insurgencies and provide political and military support to Marxist regimes...
...them into art. It therefore does a valuable service, even in the banal aesthetic quality of much of the work in it -- those earnest efforts of small, provincial talents whose work would not be worth studying except for the clarity with which it enshrines the obsessive themes of an expansionist America...
...really capable of knowing and understanding." Consequently, national interest is all that we really capable of pursuing. And "national interest" requires a limited interpretation. The Communist presence in Vietnam did not constitute a national security crisis that justified U.S. intervention. And the Nicaraguan Sandinistas were not an expansionist national security threat that neccessitated hundreds of millions of dollars in United States aid to the Contra rebels...