There are plenty of credible motives for Russia to do this (some even listed in this thread), but they are all just as weakly supported as this theory.
>>mmastr+(OP)
Yup, there are a lot of motives for many countries but there is no smoking gun or obvious candidate. Too many people potentially benefited from this.
>>mmastr+(OP)
Just mistrust and finger pointing among the western alliance is one.
Turns out everyone wanted it gone- except maybe a few Russian assets like Orban