Word: revanchists
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...whole former Soviet space. While Europe sleeps, he suggests, Moscow's secret police are infiltrating foreign governments, establishing a transcontinental energy monopoly and exploiting divisions between Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Tallinn. Exacerbating all of the above is the fact that no one is doing much to counter this angry, revanchist Russia...
...some ways, Bush bashing from so-called paleoconservatives like the Buchanans is nothing new. Just as revanchist leftists fight with the New Democrats for control of the Democratic Party, G.O.P. traditionalists--America-firsters, Fundamentalist Christians--have long battled neoconservatives from the right...
...quasi-socialist and culturally homogenizing - a hit song from Latvia starts "Europe will not understand us." None of that translates into political opposition; Estonia's main parties are still pushing for entry. But they promote membership not as a blessing but as protection against getting swallowed up by a revanchist Russia, or as an obligatory move for a tiny country with a population of less than 1.5 million. Igor Gräzin, a prominent euroskeptic law professor, strikes a chord with his puckish comparison between the E.U. and the U.S.S.R. "The parallels are perfect," he says. "The only difference...