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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The thing with these theories is why go all the way to the border of Danish territorial waters to do it? They could have had the same effect by destroying the pipe further upstream and not take the big risk of being caught red handed. The risks just don't seem proportionate to the rewards.
The location of the blasts was extremely inconvenient for the Russians. If they chose that location, there would have to be a bigger payoff for them IMO.
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International waters is international waters. They don't care about getting caught which should be blatantly obvious by now, this isn't about fooling Europe into who did it, it's about sending a message to Germany and Europe.
A country that uses window jumping as an MO doesn't care about getting caught, it wants to be caught
People are making the fallacy of trying to understand Putin's actions under normal logic when they need to be understood from the perspective of a despot trying to keep a stranglehold on its population.