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In past speeches, he has also used the irredentist term “West Azerbaijan” to refer to swaths of Armenia — including Syunik — that he believes rightfully belong to his country.

But if irredentist resentment lurked, alongside a Soviet spy’s suspicion of the U.S.,

I was first amused but then annoyed by a reader’s complaint that the words “irredentist” and “revanchist,” at the start of an article about Ukraine, were “so obtuse” that she had to look them up.

“He’s going back to a dangerous, irredentist and ethnic nationalist view of sovereignty and self-determination,” Tocci said.

Already, eastern European members of the alliance are clamoring for more U.S. forces as a deterrent against an irredentist Kremlin that once controlled their lands in addition to Ukraine.