Ukraine's worries have been compounded by Russian sabre-rattling along its borders.
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Ahead of the speech, Republicans demanded that Obama address Iran's sabre-rattling.
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Naturally, North Korea's neighbors are alarmed by the recent uptick in sabre-rattling.
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Despite sabre-rattling, Ms Fernández pursued its claim to the Falkland Islands through diplomacy.
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Global trade, despite the sabre-rattling, is growing at its fastest rate since 2010.
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Now, as then, the US is engaged in sabre-rattling with foreign foes, including Iran.
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Despite the refocus on earnings, the market could still be rattled by geo-political sabre-rattling.
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Moscow has also stepped up its military sabre-rattling and has held a series of weapons tests.
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There's a lot of sabre-rattling going on between the United States government and the Chinese government.
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The world at large would no longer have to put up with Mr Kim's sabre-rattling provocations.
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China is North Korea's most important economic and diplomatic backer, despite its anger at Pyongyang's sabre rattling.
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Both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in their very different ways, enjoy a bit of nuclear sabre-rattling.
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The president, as his new enthusiasm for sabre-rattling suggests, has no ideology and few well-informed beliefs.
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It would be a mistake to assume this sabre-rattling is merely a rhetorical dustup that will end peacefully.
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As Mr Trump's economic sabre-rattling has grown louder, China has started to cultivate relations with Japan and South Korea.
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All the sabre rattling gave the safe-haven yen an early lift, but the dollar soon steadied at 113.20 yen.
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In fact, from Mr Kim's narrow perspective, the failed summitry and reversion to sabre-rattling could be considered a great success.
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"At the moment, we presume that (Trump's auto import tax threat) is merely sabre rattling," Evercore analysts wrote in a note.
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But if so, it hints that China understands the damage its sabre-rattling has done and is trying to make amends.
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As a candidate, Trump spent months questioning the United States's historical involvement in Asia, with repeated sabre rattling directed at Beijing.
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Mr Trump has swung between sabre-rattling and talk of a grand bargain in part because neither is likely to be successful.
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Days of sabre rattling between Washington and Tehran have heightened tensions in the region amid concerns about a potential U.S.-Iran conflict.
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In the run-up to the vote, Mr Putin used his state-of-the-union address to engage in nuclear sabre-rattling.
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China conducted live-fire naval drills in the Taiwan Strait, the first such sabre-rattling in the sensitive waters in three years.
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China has denounced it, too, but has largely refrained from sabre-rattling during the campaign to avoid playing into Ms Tsai's hands.
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Both countries are prone to sabre-rattling theatrics, but they are well aware that the price of full-blown war would be appalling.
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's tests are significantly more calculated and more nuanced than Kim's oft-cited "look at me" sabre rattling.
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"What we shouldn't do now is to inflame the situation by loud sabre-rattling and shrill war cries," he told the Bild newspaper.
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In August, Pyongyang threatened to shoot intermediate range missiles towards the vicinity of Guam, a target frequently subjected to sabre-rattling from the North.
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Still, most scientists I spoke with shared Oganov's disinclination toward getting entangled in political activism, prioritizing their scientific partnerships over sabre-rattling between nations.
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Analysts have noted that President Jong Un's sabre-rattling is an attempt at regime preservation, rather than aiming to strike an all-out war.
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Many of the country's neighbors beg to differ, calling out what they see as Chinese sabre-rattling as it ramps up drills in the region.
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Not long ago, such sabre-rattling would have triggered an uproar from corporate chieftains, worried about reprisals that would shut them out of China's markets.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said in November that freedom of navigation for shipping would never be a problem in the South China Sea. SABRE-RATTLING?
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While all the nuclear sabre rattling was going on these past few weeks, it was difficult to make sense of what it was all about.
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Sitting in their hotel, they follow every word of sabre-rattling from the Trump administration, which has repeatedly made threats of military force against Maduro.
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SXPP were among the biggest sectoral fallers, down 0.2 percent, as sabre-rattling over the Korean peninsula and a rating downgrade on China hit metal prices.
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The catalyst for the end to this nearly 10-year bull market could certainly be an economic slowdown in China or sabre-rattling with North Korea.
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He is expected to speak about tensions on the Korean Peninsula after plenty of sabre-rattling about taking North Korea to task for its weapons program.
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We worry, too, about the threat of even more sabre-rattling and war waging, the burden of which will be borne by our children and grandchildren.
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China has over the years tried to coax North Korea into cautious, export-oriented economic reforms, rather than sabre rattling and nuclear tests, but to little avail.
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Similarly, moving a battle fleet into the waters off North Korea, and quite close to China, is the type of sabre rattling that can lead to war.
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Mohammed bin Salman's necessary economic reforms have caused some unease in the kingdom, while his military adventures in Yemen and sabre-rattling towards Iran have looked rash.
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"SABRE-RATTLING" Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, the Northern Irish party that is propping up May's minority government, signaled she would put pressure on May to act.
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Defeating it should, in his view, be the overwhelming national priority, far ahead of meeting the challenge of a rising China or a resurgent, nuclear sabre-rattling Russia.
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The combination of a dissolving nuclear agreement and more sabre-rattling increases the risk that America and Iran will stumble into a war—whether by accident or design.
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Some politicians in former Soviet republics and satellite states regard the parade as crude sabre-rattling by a resurgent Russia they say poses a threat to Europe's security.
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"SABRE-RATTLING" Arlene Foster, leader of the DUP, the Northern Irish party that is propping up May's minority government, signaled she would put pressure on May to act.
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In August, Pyongyang threatened to fire intermediate-range missiles toward the vicinity of Guam, a U.S. Pacific territory that is frequently subjected to sabre-rattling from the North.
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AD: So back to the original issue of the way that the markets now have now been able to shrug off these sabre rattling events of North Korea.
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Taiwan authorities have often accused Beijing of sabre-rattling and have blamed activities such as military drills in the Taiwan Strait for poor relations between the two sides.
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The Trump administration's sabre-rattling on the strong U.S. dollar will run afoul of real-world economics, said Roger Bridges, global rates and currencies strategist at Nikko Asset Management.
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A third top-10 Tesco shareholder told Reuters this week, however, that despite "sabre-rattling" from some Booker shareholders, "my gut feel is it's highly likely to go through".
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Top U.S. Navy officials also said increased exercises in eastern Europe did not amount to "sabre-rattling," but were steps to train with allies and deter aggressive Russian maritime expansion.
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In a sign of the heightened tension across the region, Exxon Mobil evacuated foreign staff from an oilfield in neighboring Iraq after days of sabre rattling between Washington and Tehran.
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For now, analysts suggested that the sabre-rattling could result in a lower-grade conflict, defined by the sort of tit-for-tat indirect tactics Iran is most accustomed to.
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Analysts said the test shows that Mr. Kim is reverting to sabre-rattling as he moves to end the sanctions that are derailing his hopes of rejuvenating North Korea's economy.
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" Leaders in France and Italy are beginning to question continuing sanctions against Russia, and the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, criticized NATO military exercises as "sabre rattling and warmongering.
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A deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday Iran could "easily" hit U.S. warships in the Gulf, the latest in days of sabre-rattling between Washington and Tehran.
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Despite the thrill of this discovery, the story hints at the ominous consequences of detecting radioactive fallout from a past society, even as nuclear sabre-rattling continues unchecked in human civilization.
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China insists it has no hostile intent, but its sabre-rattling in the busy South China Sea waterway, and around Taiwan, has touched a nerve in the region and in Washington.
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REGIONAL TENSIONS In a sign of the heightened tension across the region, Exxon Mobil evacuated foreign staff from an oilfield in neighboring Iraq after days of sabre rattling between Washington and Tehran.
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Donald Trump responded to sabre-rattling comments from the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, by tweeting that Iran would "suffer consequences the likes of which few…have ever suffered" if it kept provoking America.
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They deplore its sabre-rattling towards Taiwan and Japan, and its deep reservoirs of grievance (this week the paper peddled a largely confected tale accusing Swedish police of brutalising some rowdy Chinese tourists).
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"The last thing markets want is a move from a tit-for-tat tariff war to sabre-rattling in the Gulf," a strategist at Singapore's DBS Bank wrote in a note on Monday.
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TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - After years of sabre-rattling, eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops on Thursday to march on the capital Tripoli, escalating a conflict with the internationally recognized government.
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"The last thing markets want is a move from a tit-for-tat tariff war to sabre-rattling in the Gulf," a strategist at Singapore's DBS Bank wrote in a note on Monday.
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OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Ethnic Koreans living in Japan are nervously watching growing tensions over North Korea and are wary of a possible backlash against their community as Pyongyang ramps up its sabre-rattling.
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Khalid Hashim, managing director of Precious Shipping, one of Thailand's largest dry cargo ship owners, said that "despite all the sabre-rattling by the USA" shipping activity in the South China Sea remained normal.
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And Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent sabre-rattling about his new space missile program, which was announced alongside an animation depicting a direct attack on Florida, likely alarmed US nuclear and missile defense specialists.
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Khalid Hashim, managing director of Precious Shipping , one of Thailand's largest dry cargo ship owners, said that "despite all the sabre-rattling by the USA" shipping activity in the South China Sea remained normal.
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Japan will also be watching with ambivalence - happy to see the sabre-rattling ending but worried its security might be sacrificed in Trump's rush to neutralizes the North Korean threat to the United States.
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The comments added to days of sabre-rattling between Tehran and Washington, which has tightened sanctions and built up its military presence in the region alleging threats from Iran to its troops and interests.
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As anyone who has been to a town-hall meeting, or just watched one on "Parks and Recreation," knows, it can also be an invitation for obscure speechifying, quixotic schemes, and ad-hominem sabre rattling.
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Trump's sabre rattling on Iran and North Korea isn't just ensuring that citizens of those countries get in line behind their regimes, but it also exposes the paucity of his policies to a global audience.
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Both Moscow and Beijing look set to continue ramping up their sabre-rattling against neighbours and the West, potentially raising the prospect of new Cuban Missile Crisis-style standoffs that might lead to something worse.
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The five-yearly Communist Party congress is due near the end of this year and Mr Xi may be tempted to burnish his hawkish credentials by holding several sabre-rattling military exercises in the run up.
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Seven months of sabre-rattling The region has been on edge since North Korea announced it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in January, after a magnitude 5.1 seismic event was detected inside the rogue state.
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"Honestly, I think there's a lot of sabre-rattling in this," Thomas Baumgartner, the owner and chief executive of Fercam, a Bolzano-based logistics company, said at his company's offices, despite having potentially much to lose.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mossad director Meir Dagan, who after a long career spearheading shadow wars against Israel's enemies became a vociferous critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sabre-rattling on Iran, died of cancer on Thursday, aged 71.
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It also seemed sensible to direct Mr Trump—who had been demanding options for military action against the rogue nuclear power and last year threatened to unleash "fire, fury and frankly power" against it—away from sabre-rattling.
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General Flynn fervently believes that jihadism is an existential challenge to America's way of life and that defeating it should be an overwhelming national priority, far exceeding concerns about a rising China or a resurgent, nuclear sabre-rattling Russia.
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Italy, Greece and Spain are less than enthusiastic about a build-up; Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delighted the Kremlin earlier this month by deploring large-scale NATO exercises in eastern Europe as "war-mongering" and "sabre-rattling".
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The US may have a tremendous advantage in brute force military capabilities and allied power, but it better be sure the systems that command that weaponry are perfectly secured if it's going to do all this cocky sabre-rattling.
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We're following the arrest of the most wanted man in Europe, we're reporting on the first U.S. presidential visit to Havana since 1928, and we're discussing the issue of sabre rattling as it applies to events on the Korean Peninsula.
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Many investors suspect Pyongyang might respond to the latest drill with more sabre-rattling, such as missile tests, although it has said last week it delayed a decision on firing four missiles toward Guam, home to a U.S. air base and Navy facility.
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The foreign-policy section of his speech contained both a vow to bring American forces home ("Great nations do not fight endless wars"—rhythmically a nice line, though powerful nations have long dabbled in military adventurism) and some sabre-rattling at Iran.
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After months of sabre-rattling and increasingly brazen acts of aggression—from mine attacks on ships to the seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker—Iran (or its proxies) has moved on to strike directly at the jugular vein of the world's economy.
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That view is not shared by Brussels or EU member states concerned that any flexibility granted the Swiss might be seized on by British negotiators working out post-tertiary ties to the EU. "We can expect the normal sabre-rattling from Brussels," Mueller said.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - At a time of political tensions over U.S. air strikes in Syria and sabre-rattling by North Korea, impersonators of President Donald Trump, his predecessor Barack Obama and Pyongyang leader Kim Jong Un brought welcome laughs to the streets of Hong Kong.
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Given this, Kim is unlikely to resume missile test launches in the near term or do something similarly inflammatory that risks prompting Trump to lash out, which could in turn trigger a new round of intense sabre rattling that derails constructive U.S.-North Korea engagement.
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Financial markets have tended to quickly shake off North Korea's periodic sabre-rattling in the past, dismissing it as bluster, but tensions have lingered this year amid signs that it is making progress in its ballistic missile programme and on Trump's growing frustration with Pyongyang.
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Though the "temperature has gone up" on international relations between the U.S. and North Korea, Hecker said that "geopolitical fundamentals" of the conflict have not changed that dramatically and, despite increased sabre-rattling, Kim Jong Un is unlikely to take action which could undermine his leadership.
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"The firing of a mid-range ballistic missile on Friday by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), though failed, marks the latest in a string of sabre-rattling that, if unchecked, will lead the country to nowhere," China's official Xinhua news agency said in an English language commentary.
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Sabre-rattling over the Aegean resumed this year, when Turkish army officials, followed by their Greek counterparts, visited a pair of uninhabited (and contested) rocks known in Turkish as the Kardak islands and in Greek as Imia, which are situated between Turkey's south-west coast and the Greek Dodecanese islands.
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"We gotta stand by Taiwan, we see what's happening in China the way they're sabre rattling out there in the East, it's about time we do what Reagan did, we stand up to these bullies, we say we're not gonna let you do this, and we're gonna stand with our allies," Moore said.
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"Geopolitics remains to the fore with North Korean sabre-rattling, China trimming its GDP growth estimate, Trump accusing Obama of pre-election wiretapping and Fillon refusing to throw in the towel to keep the French Presidential election nice and entertaining," Accendo Markets Head of Research Mike van Dulken wrote in an early morning email.
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On whether she would vote with the government, Nicky Morgan, a pro-EU Conservative lawmaker and ex-minister, told BBC radio's Pienaar's Politics "what I'm not going to do is to be put off doing the right thing for the country by the sabre-rattling and leadership threats of a small minority of my party".
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"Gold still remains a very good hedge towards event risks and with key events like the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, or the sabre rattling between the U.S. and North Korea, we think that gold has potential to spike upwards should any of these tail events come to the fore," he said.
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London grime MC Novelist—who also delivered a scene-stealing verse on Skepta's "Numbers" this year—and balaclava-wearing Brooklyn rapper Leikeli47 are perfect high-octane foils for each other, and "Day Ones" is a barreling, bruising collaboration in which Harry Rodrigues laces the duo with an earth-swallowing instrumental, all sabre-rattling bass and distorted cavalry horns,over which they trade battle cries.
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