This feels like it assigns too much competence and control to the CIA and not enough to the unnammed "NATO ally" country or countries with the means and motific

This feels like it assigns too much competence and control to the CIA and not enough to the unnammed "NATO ally" country or countries with the means and motification to make a whole bunch of Russian military infrastructure go kaboom. A lot of the US reporting on the war between Russia and Ukraine is very US-centric, and there's a few European countrise which really want to wreck the Russian military, have the historic ties and connections that they could probably carry out a good sabotage campaign, and that now have a justificaton to make it happen.