#Irredentism

[quotesfrommyreading]

funny how the previous anon thinks that a resident of moscow represents all of russia somehow

Mongolia has more rights to russian territories than russia has to Ukrainian if we're talking history and shit

none of this matters now

That's exactly the problem (rather one of the problems) with irredentism. How far back do you go? Who gets to benefit, and who doesn't? Why does Russia have a claim to Ukraine, but Poland and Lithuania don't? If the Kyivan Rus' state still matters, shouldn't it be that Russia is part of Ukraine, not the other way around? Or we should just hand the whole thing over to the Swedes, or the Mongolians.

People are just people, and they live where they live. And countries are made up, but we need some way of organizing ourselves, and some countries "should" exist and others "shouldn't" (most fall into the second group), but all of them are just as made-up as the next (maybe with the exception of a nation that comprises precisely one island and nothing else).

We shouldn't be killing people to revive a historical empire or historical territory. What does it matter, if a piece of land your country owned over a hundred years ago, is no longer ruled by your government, when the people on it are living perfectly fine as is? Let's not start the next Hundred Years' War, or worse, god forbid, World War Three.

[mapsontheweb]

Bengal Irredentism.

by generic_maps

[eyebagsanonymous]

Was answering a question about irredentism and the only example I could think of was sunning rocks from warrior cats

[uboat53]

[ordenza]

hold awn it’s donnarumma season again??

[isaacsapphire]

That is the problem with ethnic nationalist irredentism, isn't it? "Jews get out, you're not from here even if you were born here as were your parents, Palestinians get out, you're not from here even if you were born here as were your parents, etc"

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[mishkakagehishka]

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[hasdrubal-gisco]

okay

trains to lviv are 1400 crowns (55e for the fiefs of brussels) round trip, hotels are relatively cheap. hmm

[pawberri]

People who justify imperialism or irredentism of world powers just because they are former or purported communist states unfollow me boooo booo authoritarianism sucks booo

[mapsontheweb]

Italia irredente, lands claimed to be Italian in early 1900s.

[notaplaceofhonour]

knowing more words never hurt nobody

nation-state. irredentism. expansionism. revanchism.

[giritina]

Dudes on here say China is anti imperialist but I'm curious what the meaningful difference is between imperialism and irredentism if the territories in question you're trying to reclaim were a part of your country when you were an empire . And don't want to be a part of your empire anymore

[caesarsaladinn]

there are lots of defensible versions of Armenian irredentism, but you had to choose the one with a historical grounding in the year 50 AD

[gardenofdelete998]

wtf is going on. my facebook feed is 50% romanian irredentism, black chauvinist content and luigi mangione memes. never engaged with any of that

[quasi-normalcy]

Coming Soon: Rowling decides that actually she supports the PRC's territorial irredentism over the island of Taiwan.