But it gives time to shift the narrative-- create lots of anger and then start with the "donate to our side, we'll fight to maintain this/undo this". I mean I don't have any reason for thinking this is more likely than any other possibility, but really at this point there's not enough evidence to narrow it down at all. Hell maybe it was Putin-- who can really say at this point
there are lots of opportunities and lots of opportunists who have initially nothing to do with the action or thought process and coordination leading up to the action
there is a group of people susceptible to the idea of trying to tie them all together
and there are opportunities to lead those kind of people on too
I mainly caution against being one of the people susceptible to connecting unrelated strings, and providing an alternate framework on how random things happen in reality
Have you consider grasping at different straws?