Russian expansionist ambitions could quickly become "an obvious existential threat to our whole being", the most senior British military officer in Nato has said in a strongly worded speech.
You become a complicit participant in a military expansionist agenda on the continent of Africa.
West European and American worries that Moscow is successfully buying, bribing or bullying support for expansionist influence within the EU is most apparent in Budapest, where Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, strongly opposes EU sanctions against Russia and is busy striking deals with Moscow.
But the prospect of rival experiments, as Washington pursued a more expansionist path, was dashed by Republican election gains.
Discussions will range across the Russian advance in Ukraine and expansionist threat to the Baltics, the Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan next year, the possibility of wider alliance air strikes in northern Iraq against Islamic State (Isis), the need for Nato to produce a viable rapid reaction force in Europe as well as respond to the threats of hybrid warfare and terrorism.
We already know that the American agenda is an expansionist one, and that expansionism is in conflict with African sovereignty.
What, though, of the contrasting methodologies deployed by our expansionist Hollywood rubes?
Confidence has been sapped by the leadership vacuum in a government whose economic policy is in disarray, by the chronic weakness of the banking system and by a central bank which seems incapable or unwilling to pursue an expansionist monetary policy.There is little prospect of an early improvement.
While the Kremlin grows increasingly isolationist, the Mariinsky is becoming ever more open and expansionist.
But the Japanese do not mention that in 1895 Qing China lay prostrate, defeated the previous year by an aggressive, expansionist and rapidly Westernising Japan.
With expansionist powers such as Russia and China for neighbours, Kazakhstan's leader worries that some day someone will develop an appetite for its territory.
