{"id":5565,"date":"2025-08-23T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:04:26","slug":"irredentism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/irredentism\/","title":{"rendered":"Irredentism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irredentism#:~:text=The%20term%20irredentism%20originated%20from,to%20increase%20power%20and%20wealth.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">Irredentism <\/a>&#8211; (Italian: irredentismo)[1] is one state&#8217;s desire to annex the territory of another state.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised I haven&#8217;t seen this term used in the context of the Ukraine war by Russia. I found in at the end of chapter 14 of V. by Pynchon:<br \/>\n&#8220;Rumor had it that a week or so later the lady V. ran off with one Sgherraccio, a mad irredentist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irredentism &#8211; (Italian: irredentismo)[1] is one state&#8217;s desire to annex the territory of another state. I&#8217;m surprised I haven&#8217;t seen this term used in the context of the Ukraine war by Russia. I found in at the end of chapter 14 of V. by Pynchon: &#8220;Rumor had it that a week or so later the &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/irredentism\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,17,4604],"tags":[4947,5169,5170,4943,5171],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5565","6":"format-standard","7":"category-faits-divers","8":"category-sea-stories","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"category-what-i-read","11":"post_tag-v","12":"post_tag-irredentism","13":"post_tag-irredentist","14":"post_tag-pynchon","15":"post_tag-sgherraccio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}