militarist

Example Sentences

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State media likened Takaichi to the Japanese militarists who led the country into World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once the militarists cripple Russia, the plan goes, they will focus military aggression on the Indo-Pacific, dominating what Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, referring to the Pacific, called "the American Sea."

From Salon

But in the 1990s, Gerry Adams persuaded the reluctant militarists in Republican ranks that turning the IRA's violence off could achieve more in their quest for Irish unity.

From BBC

Biden and militarists in the national security establishment — the military-industrial-media-think tank complex sometimes known as "the blob" — and militarists in both parties in Congress are all warning darkly of Russia's "imminent" invasion of Ukraine.

From Salon

History shows that men who decide for war, as the Japanese militarists did, cannot demand mercy for themselves.

From New York Times