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martial; bellicose; belligerent (Moscow’s rhetoric has also grown more belligerent. Putin has demanded legal guarantees that Ukraine will never join Nato or host its missile strike systems, concessions he is unlikely to receive.  theguardian.com); warlike; soldierly; soldierlike; combative; combatant; militant; battailous; militaristic; Tyrtaean; Amazonian; fighting; polemical; trigger-happy; scrappy (alex-l1904); bomb happy; trigger happy; truculent; pugnacious (As it stands, what Moscow views as a western-backed "coup" is a personal humiliation for Russia's pugnacious leader. He will not take it lightly. 4uzhoj); gung-ho (gung-ho mentality VLZ_58); chippy; aggressive; quarrelsome (Olya34); armipotent; chivalric; chivalrous; soldier-like; war-like (rosulingua) |
