> least shitty theory

I read about CIA false flags in Cuba. Nordstream didn't blow itself up because the pipe was angry it allowed .de and .ru to engage in commerce.

I guess a rogue western intelligence group bribed or compelled a Chinese lab worker to sabotage something.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rfk-ope...

"The CIA had been plotting to assassinate Castro since the summer of 1960, even before John Kennedy was elected. A congressional investigation of the CIA later uncovered eight separate plots of varying ridiculousness between 1960 and 1965."