Just limiting their expansion ideals.

We're not invading them and destroying their government <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

>expansion
expand fucking where?!

Assad isn't expanding.

>Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights

...

Iraq..

Golan was Syria's to fucking begin with you revisionist historian boob

"expansion"

Implies expanding their border..

Retaking the Golan hights is expansionist..

Epanding their border..

it also implies taking what you didn't already have

Ehh, maybe.

retaking what you lost isn't fucking expansionist, if anything its just vindictive

"a policy of expansion, as of territory or currency"

Yes it is.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/expansionist

The soviets were expansionist

Yep

china is arguably expansionist

Yep

Syria wanting a chunk of land that honestly its up in the air whether or not Israel did or didn't just offer to give back, isn't a fucking "expansion"

By our definition it is.

Anyway, conflict between Syria and Israel isn't something we want

The Jews will come crawling for aid

Not something we want to be forced to give them.

by "your" definition no country on this planet can exist in a state that isn't staunch ally or hated adversary, fuck "your" definitions

"my" definition being 'dictionary.com'

And you, not having a definition.

"a website said a policy of expanding is expansionist"
that's great. retaking something you had but lost still isn't an expansion

An internationally accepted definition? Yes. <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expansionism

"a policy or practice of expansion and especially of territorial expansion by a nation"

There's another one.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/expansionist

"A nation's practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion"

And another one.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/expansionist

and still nothing about whether said territory is in fact being claimed after first having been lost