[The_Colonel]

> But in 2021 there was enough evidence on who did it and what was being planned to take action.

Seems like you agree the reason it was not published before 2021 was that there wasn't enough evidence collected yet.

Isn't that the most parsimonious explanation? Why do you feel the need to add this superfluous German angle / Russian resources unfounded speculation?

[surfingdino]

Because Germany is the biggest ally of Russia in the EU and has investments in Eastern Europe that benefit from cheap labour available in the region and cheap oil and gas from Russia (well, no more), so it was not interested in upsetting the status quo.

[stoperaticless]

Vanishingly small amount of facts that affect us are proven in court or by scientific experiment.

When living on this world, one must do a lot of “speculation”, to derive most probable explanations based on limited information available. I guess one could call it “personal opinion”, “informed opinion”, or even “expert oponion” depending on the context.

In this specific case, worth remembering, that speed of investigations depend on resources allocated to it; resource allocation is easily impacted by politics.

Here is an unrelated example, but it illustrates an attempt to appease Russia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14202371 (there was European Arrest Warrant for ex-kgb guy over old eastern Europe stuff; in 2011 Austria detained him, but then swiftly released him within 24 hours)

[surfingdino]

Austria? How not surprising at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria_and_Russian_intelligen...