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I finally get a little traction on folks here considering an alternative theory of an event that nobody is working from a position of facts, and could easily be this generation's Gulf of Tonkin incident to drag us into the next two decades of pointless war.... and this is the thanks I get.
Time will tell... or it won't. Like i mentioned earlier, our provable facts are slim, the Russians have no incentive to share derogatory information that they had a blockage and screwed up recovering from it, and sabotage can look a whole lot like poor decisionmaking. The Russians/Soviets long have had terrible service records because while often quite smart, their scientists and engineers were frequently overruled at key points by political expediency and their technicians were discouraged from critical thinking and frequently drunk.