provocation

What makes more sense is that this is really a provocation to try to get Venezuela to attack one of the warships and set off a regime-change operation.

Banowsky’s film is a love letter to the process of provocation, the kind of thoughtful, challenging art that demands time and handmade effort.

He killed a man in a fight when he was 18 and was jailed for two-and-a-half-years after being convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of provocation.

Pyongyang responded by accusing Seoul of a "deliberate provocation".

North Korean state media called the shots a "deliberate provocation" and Pyongyang has accused Seoul of risking "uncontrollable" tensions.