Why exactly is it beyond reason? One, there are other means of Transit if necessary. Two brushes willing to beat up its own citizens. Three, rushes perfectly willing to kill anybody in its citizenry that disagrees with it and it's politic. This is evidence by varied pipes the transit ukraine, gas that's transited through other means, and so on. It's also evidenced by the numerous oligarchs and businessmen that randomly fall or otherwise achieve their death through no volition of their own. It's further evidence by Russia actively imprisoning and beating the shit out of its citizens for daring to object to what it's doing with its call up and conscription. So how precisely is it beyond reason. Oh and furthermore they're not beyond invading their neighbors and bombing the [Unwelcome language removed] out of Innocents, gang raping women and children, and mutilating people that oppose it. So why is it outside the realm of reason that it might blow up a pipe somewhere?