How to pronounce“revanchist”in English
adjpolitics, uh you know, a kind of riff on the concert of Europe, Russia as a kind
of imperial revanchist power that is trying to uh elbow its way into Europe, feeling feeling like it has been pushed out of what it considered its own kind
of historical uh arena. You could also argue that this is potentially a repeat of 19th century-style great power politics uh
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Definitions of “revanchist”
A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.
“The next day, newspapers across the political spectrum will express varying degrees of outrage at the president's discourtesy, ignorance, and lack of style; one will accuse him of being a revanchist.”
Seeking revenge or otherwise advocating retaliation, especially against a nation which has previously defeated and humiliated the revanchist party in war. Originally referred to the French indignation over losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
“No longer did young German tourists in France or Holland have to pretend that they were Swedes, and no longer did the governments of Eastern Europe blame all their problems on the “revanchist West Germans”.”