My dark-horse theory is this was a white-hat operation to force peace negotiations so gas can be restarted through the overland pipelines running through Poland and Ukraine. If this is a black-hat op, the boomerang will be the breakup of the EU and a return to nationalism throughout Western Europe. Germany has a very good reason to want peace now - Russia loses (at least temporarily) it's leverage for supplying gas before a peace deal is in the books and Trump jumped on the chance to offer to head up the negotiations.

My dark-horse theory is this was a white-hat operation to force peace negotiations so gas can be restarted through the overland pipelines running through Poland and Ukraine. If this is a black-hat op, the boomerang will be the breakup of the EU and a return to nationalism throughout Western Europe.