I agree, Justin Sun is like a snake that if left alone would be harmless, but if provoked, he'll strike with venom. Now we're rushing to the emergency room.

Some say Justin struck first by declaring on Twitter that he's moving dapps to the tron blockchain and issuing steem token swaps.

Then he backtracked and assured everyone on the AMA with Ned that he would support the STEEM chain, but then when asked this:

He said " ...at least now we don't have any plan to use our stake to vote for the content or the witness"

This was the beginning of the whole mess. It came down to the witnesses' interpretation of three words: "at least now". They believed he plans to vote out the witnesses... just not now. So they flipped out and implimented the soft-fork, preventing Justin from using his stake that he purchased with real dollars and the rest is history.

So did Justin really strike first? The witnesses clearly believed that a "hostile takeover" was imminent. Before they knew it, a hostile takeover happened. Self-fulfilling.