Irredentism

Irredentism is a Non-Quadrant Nationalist  ideology which describes the political manifestation of the desire to reacquire territory considered to be "lost" or "unredeemed". Irredentists may want to reclaim territory that their country once owned, but have since lost, or may feel that their country missed out on reigning over land that they believe rightfully belonged to them. Irredentism is also known as Revanchism, however the latter is considered to have a more angry or revolutionary connotation.

Irredentism differs from Pan-Nationalism in a sense that PanNat regards a union of two or more sovereign states that share a common feature (eg. culture, ethnicity, language) while irredentism envisions the annexation of independent states or some of their territories under its rule.

[[File:Cball-Bolivia.png]] Bolivian Irredentism
Bolivian irredentism, also known as Mediterraneidad de Bolivia, refers to the geographical situation of the country that makes it a landlocked state. The Government of Bolivia has claimed to have a direct exit to the Pacific Ocean after having lost territory in favor of Chile after its defeat in the War of the Pacific, specifically, it is a strip known as the Atacama Corridor. This territorial cession was confirmed in 1904 after the signing of the Treaty between Chile and Bolivia.

In 2009, a new Bolivian Constitution was proclaimed, among the articles the vindication of the country's historical right to an outlet to the sea is included.

Día del Mar (Day of the Sea) is held annually on March 23rd to commemorate the loss of the Litoral department after the War of the Pacific in favor of Chile, in the 19th century. The event is commemorated with multiple parades and marches in different cities of the country, consecrating a central ceremony in the Plaza Abaroa of the capital city La Paz, with the participation of the president of the nation, national authorities, military, professionals, workers and citizens in general. The 1963 iteration of the event was marked by anti-Chile chants and songs by worker and student groups.

[[File:Cball-Falklands.png]] Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas dispute [[File:Argentina.png]] [[File:Cball-UK.png]]
Argentina claims that Britain’s possession of the Falklands is an attack on its territorial integrity and demands that sovereignty over the archipelago is transferred, disregarding the wishes of the islands’ population. UK argues that all peoples have the right to self-determination and as long as the islanders wish to ‘keep the Falklands British’ this should remain so. The Argentine claims are based on events which occurred over 180 years ago, when Britain allegedly usurped the islands. Britain’s claims are based on the present situation, arguing the rights of the islanders should be respected according to 21st century democratic standards.

[[File:Cball-Finland.png]] Greater Finland
The variant of creation and emergence of Greater Finland was the following: in addition to the mainland Finland, it would include territories inhabited by ethnically related peoples of the Finno-Ugric group: Finns,  Karelians,  Estonians, Veps, and so on. The idea of ​​creating the greater finnish state had a great influence on Finnish society in 1917 and onwards (before and after World War II).

The most quirky version of "Greater Finland" was limited by the so-called natural boundaries, which cover areas inhabited by the Finns and Karelians, from the White Sea to Lake Onega, further along the Svir River and the Neva River or, to be more specific, from the Sestra River to the Gulf of Finland (as those were the former borders of the Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire). Some supporters also include the territory of Ingria, Estonia, Northern Finnmark and the Tourneelven Valley as part of Greater Finland. The most radical views also promote Greater Finland to as far as the Yenisei River, to include all Finno-Ugric peoples except the Hungarians.

[[File:Zio.png]] Greater Israel [[File:Kahan.png]]
"Main Article: Kahanism"

[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Greater Russia [[File:Cball-Russian Empire.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Greater Syria [[File:Saadeh.png]]
"Main Article: Saadehism"

[[File:Cball-Hungary.png]] Hungarian Irredentism [[File:Hu.png]]
"Main Article: Hungarism"

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[[File:Polandball.png]] Kresy Myth
"Kresy" or "Eastern Kresy" (Literally - "eastern borderlands") is the Polish name of the territories of present-day  western Ukraine,  western Belarus and around Vilnius,  Lithuania, which were once part of the First and Second Polish Republics.

The Polish inhabitants of these lands, including those deported from the USSR in 1944-1946 to  socialist Poland, are sometimes called "Kresovians". The category of "kresy" together with the category of religiosity developed in the nineteenth century, when Poland lost its independence. It is connected with the defense of Poland as a territory and original spirituality. Kresy lands are presented as a kind of "paradise on earth", where everyone lived in harmony, no one quarrels with anyone. Such a mythological world is a part of Polish nation and identity.

In 1924, the Polish parliament passed the Kresy law, which introduced bilingual school education in order to assimilate the local population in these areas. Also, to change the national composition of the lands, their settlement by Poles was intensive.

[[File:Nazi.png]] Lebensraum
"Main Article: National Socialism" Lebensraum (which means Living Space in German) was a movement created in Germany during the early 20th century. It belived that Germany should expand into the east and colonize much of that territory in order to prevent overpopulation, but also deriving ideas from Anti-slavic  sentiment. It was popularized during World War I when the British have blockaded Germany and Germans hoped that taking over the vast fields of  Ukraine would negate the effects of the blockade. This idea was later adopted by the Nazis and was an central factor to the start of World War II. The idea died out after the war when all germans that lived in Eastern Europe, East Prussia and the Sudetenland were either deported or cleansed.

[[File:Cball-Greece.png]] Megali Idea
"Main Article: Venizelism"

The Megali Idea (meaning great idea in Greek) was a movement in Greece which was created during  Ottoman rule and was popularised soon after independence by Greek  liberals who wished to unite all Greeks in a single state and liberate them from the  Ottomans. They believed that like that this would also develop the Greek economy. These ideas were adopted by Cretan revolutionary and Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos. The Megali Idea died out after the Greco-Turkish war when the Greek population of Anatolia was deported from their historic homelands, to the other side of the Aegean.

[[File:Nationalist_Front_of_Mexico.png]] Mexican Fascism
"Main Article: Mexican Fascism"

[[File:Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism
"Main Article: Neo-Ottomanism"

[[File:Cball-Mongolia.png]] Pan-Mongolism [[File:Cball-MongolEmpire.png]]
Pan-Mongolism is a movement for the unification of the Mongol peoples into a single state. That includes Mongolia (or Outer Mongolia),  Chinese autonomous region of  Inner Mongolia and the  Russian republics of  Buryatia and  Tuva.

After the proclamation of the independence of Outer Mongolia in 1911, Bogd Khan initially sought to unite Mongolia. Troops were sent to Inner Mongolia, but had to be withdrawn, due to the fact that these steps could provoke a conflict between  Russia and  Japan. At the same time, the movement would be geopolitically oriented towards Japan and would take openly anti-communist positions.

Another revival of pan-Mongol sentiment occurred at the end of World War II, when Mongol troops took part in joint operations with Soviet troops against the  Japanese puppet state Mengjiang. The hostilities ended after Joseph Stalin handed over Inner Mongolia to  Mao Zedong's communist People's Republic of China.

Recently Pan-Mongolism, which has long fought for the unification of the historical region, is understood as the idea of cooperation between all Mongol peoples within a single cultural region.

[[File:Cball-Romania.png]] România Mare (Greater Romania)
Greater Romania refers to Romania's interwar borders with Bessarabia and Northern Dobruja. Some irredentists also claim Northern Hungary, Serbian Banat and some parts of Ukraine

[[File:Cball-Ireland.png]] United Ireland [[File:PLB-StPat.png]]
United Ireland refers to a possible sovereign state covering all 32 counties of Ireland. As of right now, the independent Republic of Ireland covers 26 counties and  Northern Ireland that has the remaining 6, is part of the  United Kingdom. The idea of a united Ireland, completely independent from the British, is supported by the overwhelming majority of Irish nationalists like  Sinn Féin.

The demarcation of Ireland's borders in 1921 was driven by demographic, economic, religious and political factors. In demographic terms the six counties constituting Northern Ireland contain a pro-British and Protestant majority, which favors union with the UK. Since the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on December 6, 1921, which simultaneously recognized the existence of the new Irish Free State and in turn the ability of Northern Ireland to decide whether or not to join that state. The Northern Irish parliament instead rejected that possibility and requested to continue to be under the United Kingdom, becoming one of its constituencies. In 1937 the Irish Free State left the British Commonwealth of Nations and in 1949 it would end up as the Republic of Ireland, thus having no close political connection to the United Kingdom.

Since the division of the island, significant work has been carried out in order to reunite both regions as one united Irish state. As a result, the northern territory of the island was engulfed in a long-term armed conflict. Formally, in 1998, both the Irish and the British governments agreed that the status of Northern Ireland would not be changed without the approval of its residents.

[[File:Cball-Azerbaijan.png]] Whole Azerbaijan
Whole Azerbaijan is a concept uniting both the mainland state of Azerbaijan,  Iranian (South) Azerbaijan and also Derbent region of  Dagestan in  Russia, the historic region of Borchali in  Georgia, the  Turkish province of Iğdır and all of  Armenia into the single Azerbaijani state.

In 1991, Iranian Azerbaijani Peruz Dilanchi formulated the idea of ​​a Greater Azerbaijan, and then-Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elchibey identified areas for which the future state could claim. The ideas of Greater Azerbaijan were set out in Dilanchi's book Bütöv Azərbaycan yolunda, published in Ankara in 1997. President Elchibey also believed that the borders of Azerbaijan should extend from Derbent to the Persian Gulf. Shortly before his death in 2000 he opposed to this idea.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a ball,
 * 2) Fill it with orange,
 * 3) Draw a black dagger (tip facing down) with the head of a screeching eagle as the handle,
 * 4) Draw a black span of wings on the left and right side, but leave room for the next step,
 * 5) On each side below the wings, draw two black arrow-tipped thunderbolts facing down,
 * 6) Add the eyes, and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Pannat.png]] Pan-Nationalism - I will reunify our great Stanistan!


 * [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism - He's a profession companion

Frenemies

 * [[File:Zio.png]] Zionism - Yes! This land is the ancestral homeland of the Jews, and as such it belongs to you! (turns around and runs thirty paces over to Palestine) Those Western-funded Jews have stolen your homeland and murdered your citizenry, this land belongs to you!

Enemies

 * [[File:Neighborstan.png]] Neighborstan - Everything about you is fake! You're our stolen clay!!

Further Information

 * Irredentism
 * Revanchism

Videos

 * [[File:Cball-Falklands.png]] The Falklands - MiniWars #1 by OverSimplified