Day 1,263: revanchist

That said, the entire world—including Russia—would benefit from the failure of the revanchist idea that the old Russian empire can be recreated.

A looming Russian offensive

Artwork of the day 
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Thomas Cole
Date: 1834
Style: Romanticism
Series: The Course of Empire
Genre: landscape, allegorical painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: New York Historical Society, New York City, NY, US
Dimensions: 100 x 160.5 cm

Word of the day 
revanchist: of or relating to a policy designed to recover lost territory or status : of or relating to a revanche

Quote of the day
“Rarely has a diplomatic document so missed its objective as the Treaty of Versailles. Too punitive for conciliation, too lenient to keep Germany from recovering, the Treaty of Versailles condemned the exhausted democracies to constant vigilance against an irreconcilable and revanchist Germany as well as a revolutionary Soviet Union.”
― Henry Kissinger