jingoes

Bellicose patriotism advocates

Jingoes is the plural of jingo, a person who advocates aggressive or warlike foreign policy, especially one who supports military action to expand national power or prestige.

The term carries strong negative connotations of blind patriotism and belligerence: The jingoes in Congress were pushing for intervention.

Jingoism is the associated noun for such attitudes.

historical

Disraeli

Victorian-era British leader

colonialism · imperialism · gunboat diplomacy · Crimea · annexation · naval power · Britannia · Union Jack · Rule Britannia · pith helmets

nationalism

chauvinists

Excessively partial advocates

patriots · militarists · xenophobes · imperialists · expansionists · supremacists · ultranationalists · zealots · hardliners · belligerents

Opposites
stance on war and military aggression

jingoespacifists

Those opposing all warfare

doves · peaceniks · peacemakers · peace advocates · war resisters

national identity and patriotism

jingoesinternationalists

Supporters of cross-border cooperation

cosmopolitans · globalists · multilateralists · multiculturalists · universalists

Family

jingoism, jingoist, jingo, jingoistic, jingoists, jingoistically

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