I don’t buy it. 6 schmucks just rent a sailboat and some deep sea diving equipment? It’s a scapegoat. The only country both capable and incentivized to pull it off is the US. US officials and Biden have said many times they would destroy it. They just can’t be seen as responsible for directly attacking Russia and Europe.
If it wasn’t the US after all that grandstanding, the world needs to be ridiculing the Biden government for incompetence. How can you brag about being able to shut down a pipeline, send a fucking fleet for a week, then – during the same week that you’re patrolling the seas – get beaten to the punchline by some guys on a sailing trip hoping to relive their youth and find themselves in a changing world that doesn’t understand their gruff humour.