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Let's wander down the rabbithole of the use of the term "warmonger" and various permutations thereof on Twitter. Search terms included:
warmonger(s)
warmongerer(s)
war monger(s)
war mongerer(s)
cc: @ZellaQuixote
warmonger(s)
warmongerer(s)
war monger(s)
war mongerer(s)
cc: @ZellaQuixote
We'll start by looking at the use of warmonger etc in the data released by Twitter on accounts they identified as state-linked disinformation and subsequently removed. There are 1097 tweets containing warmonger in these datasets, mostly from accounts attributed to Russia or Iran. 
Word clouds for tweets containing "warmonger" from the Russia-linked accounts respectively. US political figures along with "neocon" and "globalist" are prominent. #AltWankers such as PrisonPlanet, JackPosobiec, and StefanMolyneux also show up.
The tweets containing "warmonger" variants from the Iran-linked accounts are mostly focused on the Middle East, with Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party putting in guest appearances. US-related topics are largely absent.
Here's the word cloud for the "warmonger" tweets from the banned Venezuela-linked accounts. Interestingly, banned Russia-linked account Pamela_Moore13 shows up (small text, right edge) due to having been retweeted by one of the Venezuelan accounts.
Moving on from the banned accounts, here's the overall tweet volume for "warmonger" (and variants) from the beginning of 2016 to present. We've numbered the major spikes in activity and are curious as to your thoughts on the real-world events with which they correlate.
Here's the same figure (overall tweet volume for warmonger etc); we've labeled the major spikes with the events that seem to have driven the activity, based on analysis of the tweet content and the events that were dominant in the news cycle at the time.
20 most frequently retweeted accounts in each "warmonger" spike. Frequent fliers include @RandPaul, legendary disinformaticist @Ian56789, and #AltWanker @JackPosobiec. Banned Internet Research Agency troll @TEN_GOP's presence in then 2017 Khan Shaykhun traffic is interesting.
*the 2017 Khan Shaykhun traffic
