If you believe that China would like to turn Russia into a puppet state, or that they would like to prolong Russia’s war in Ukraine for as long as possible (to

If you believe that China would like to turn Russia into a puppet state, or that they would like to prolong Russia’s war in Ukraine for as long as possible (to bleed the West before China invades Taiwan later in the decade), then reducing Russia’s income from the West while also making energy more expensive for the West seems like maybe a good plan? I dunno, it feels a bit beyond what China has done before. But if this was an American ship having damaged a pipeline between Chinese allies in East Asia, we would say, sure, I can imagine the Americans wanting to harm China’s allies, I’m just surprised they used an American ship to do it. So yeah, why not?