Empire About To Do The Unthinkable?

US accelerating missile defenses in Gulf: report

"The US administration is speeding up deployment of defenses against potential Iranian missile attacks in the Gulf to heed off any possible retaliation, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The move involves placing specialized ships off the Iranian coast and anti-missile systems in at least four Arab countries -- Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait -- the Times said, citing administration and military officials."

Funny wording there with that typo involved. Retaliation means to respond to something. One could read two things into it - responding to sanctions or an unprovoked attack. Since Iran has been more than patient in the face of unrelenting taunts, threats, outright terrorism and economic warfare from the ziofascists, one should be concerned the empire is about to go batshit insane.