He advocated policies positions for Germany that were aggressively nationalist, imperialist and expansionist. For example, Nazism and Italian Fascism were expansionist and irredentist. These convinced him that the communist bloc was pursuing expansionist policies. The war was the result of conflicting expansionist ambitions. They suspected that it concealed Portuguese expansionist ambitions over the region. He pursued an aggressive and expansionist foreign policy with mixed success. A species might undertake such extermination out of expansionist motives, greed, paranoia, or aggression. The Egyptian raids did not prevent Baldwin from pursuing an expansionist policy. Soon Louis revived the alliance to facilitate his expansionist policies. Despite this declared neutrality, Greece became a target for Mussolini's expansionist policies. Japan's expansionist vision grew increasingly bold. The Aztecs are both fiercely expansionist and generally extremely wealthy, for example. The kingdom then came to conflict over Shan states with the expansionist Burmese king Bayinnaung. Texas was finally annexed when the expansionist James K. Polk won the election of 1844. Various interactions with these followed an expansionist policy.