Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an expansionist dictator and he has to be held in check," says pro-war student Lyle J. Goldstein...
...only remaining justification for immediate war in the Gulf is that a bloody defeat for Hussein would establish peace in the Middle East by deterring future aggression from other expansionist-minded leaders. But such deterrence would only work if other leaders were convinced that the same kind of military action would happen again in the same way: universal world condemnation, a universal approval of force and then a U.S.-led attack...
Furthermore, other Southeast Asian nations were alarmed by Vietnam's 1979 invasion and feared further expansionist action. Thailand, Laos, Burma and others took a strong stand against Vietnams's action, and supported the rebel coalition, which includes the Khmer Rouge...
Just as Dulles had done in the '50s, the U.S. was again drawing a line in the dust and warning the bad guys not to cross it. It is questionable that even in their most expansionist phase, the Soviets ever seriously considered a grab for the oil and warm-water ports of the gulf. But if they did, it is certain they took very seriously indeed the risk that they would end up in a war with the U.S. In short, they were deterred...
...dilemma in both countries has the same cause: the heritage of empire. The non-Russian Soviet republics were absorbed by expansionist rulers in centuries past and never assimilated. Quebec became a part of Canada when British troops led by Major General James Wolfe defeated France's Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, a cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence river outside Quebec City, in 1759. Though nationalism is almost an anachronism in a world where economics is driving nation-states into larger units, the centuries of thwarted emotions are now catching up with multiethnic federations like Canada...