The only provocation I see is that of US warmongers closing on another country half a world away from their mainland. Déjà vu. 

The U.S. Permanent Rep in the UN Nikki Haley, who is made from the same cloth as the previous zealot Samantha Power, exclaimed the other day:  "We", meaning the United States, "are the conscientiousness of the whole world". Judging by atrocities her country has repeatedly caused, has been and is involved to this day in different parts of the world, it is one flawed conscientiousness, indeed.