hawkish

Etymology

hawk + -ish

adj

1. Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
2. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
   The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
   This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump. September 10, 2019, Christian Britschgi, “Ultra-Hawk John Bolton Fired From Trump Administration”, in Reason
   But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee. July 1, 2020, Dan Friedman, “Congressional Democrats Are Tying Themselves Into Knots About Whether to Restrict Aid to Israel”, in Mother Jones
   The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine. 2022-08-21, Anton Troianovski, “Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
3. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
   The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.