To answer my opening question: Turkish bellicosity results primarily from one man's ambition and ego.
China cannot be blind to the Kims' bungling and bellicosity, nor welcome their nuclear ambitions.
Before the war, Hizbullah had been increasingly isolated in its insistence on maintaining its bellicosity to Israel.
Turkey's bellicosity towards Israel as well as Greece and Cyprus has caused it no harm in Washington.
But, Daily Telegraph complains, the problem is that, beyond bellicosity in the Caucasus, he has articulated no clear policy.
She is not working to coordinate moves to check Iran's increasing bellicosity.
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Economic realities seem likely to compel the Kremlin sharply to reduce its obsolescing nuclear arsenal, regardless of the bellicosity of its rhetoric or doctrine.
The bellicosity in this crisis is coming almost entirely from Tehran.
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Analysts said that much of the bellicosity is meant to shore up loyalty among citizens and the military for North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un.
Between North Korea's nuclear test, Iran's brazen bellicosity and America's betrayal, it is clear that the government can do nothing to impact Washington's policies toward Iran.
But their statements and actions in this instance juxtaposing bellicosity with offers of negotiations make perfect sense if they are intended to cover the acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability.
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Does this public bellicosity really make military action more likely?
Because Winchell's fearless bellicosity had propelled all of our neighbors outdoors as well, what had begun for us as a cheerful little evening stroll ended as an impromptu block party for everyone.
The use of the B-2s, which are designed to evade radar and penetrate air defenses to drop bombs on heavily protected targets, is the strongest response yet to North Korea's recent bellicosity.
Unlike earlier bellicosity, today's rhetoric lacks calibration.
Then, as now, the so-called international community insisted on ignoring or apologizing for the genocidal bellicosity of Palestinian Arab nationalism, while attempting to appease the Palestinians with money and the conferral of international support and legitimacy for the cause of Israel's disembowelment.
There is a second theory, not incompatible with the first: Mr Abdi is committing political suicide in order to avoid revelations to do with national security that could have sorely embarrassed senior reformists, and provided the United States with an excuse to increase its already considerable bellicosity towards Iran.
Given Iran's bellicosity in threatening US naval ships in one of the most vital waterways in the world, it is hard to see why the US would believe that Iranian cooperation in policing and defeating its own proxy forces in Iraq would advance US interests in the country or in the larger war.
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