The league was a rallying point for revanchist and nationalistic forces from the beginning. The latter reflected a "revanchist, military-minded conservative nationalism". The initiator denied any revanchist connotations to the proposal. Curator Justin Hoffmann called Oroschakoff a "Belarusian revanchist". The outcome of the Balkan Wars sparked a very strong revanchist sentiment among Bulgarians. Despite the demotion, Weber continued the political struggle against the "Revanchist Adenauer state". He would return to Syria in 295 to fight the revanchist Persian empire. In France, the revanchist movement developed to recover this territory. However, Napoleon III failed to secure revanchist alliances from these states.