saber rattling Definition

sabre rattling, posturing, brinkmanship, belligerence, provocations, bellicose, bluster, rhetoric, jawboning, adventurism, gunboat diplomacy, psychological warfare, appeasement, diplomacy, unilateralism, intransigence, warmongers, demagoguery, conciliatory, unilateral, escalation, preemptive, gamesmanship, belligerency, propaganda, triumphalism, remilitarization, hyperbole, mudslinging, expansionism, overture, jingoism, aggression, gambit, shuttle diplomacy, rapprochement, doublespeak, sophism, allies, pronouncements, temporizing, ploy, rhetorical, acrimony, vituperation, vacillation, detente, bluffing, tensions, hostility, militarise, dovishness, obstructionism, revisionism, placatory, meddling, fulminations, geopolitical, psywar, hawkishness, prevarication, sophistry, latent hostility, dissuasion, wishful thinking, oneupmanship, imperialists, russophobia, belligerent, nucular, geostrategy, sloganeering, militarization, fingerpointing, demagogic, disinformation, adversaries, jitteriness, salvos, sniping, militarily, acquiescence, demonization, revanchism, warlike, demarches, antagonism, bombast, theatrics, fence mending, confrontation, yellow sea, denuclearize, destabilization, skirmishes, assertiveness, retaliatory, hotheads, invective, tit,