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Interesting, thanks for doing such a detailed breakdown on it. When you put it that way, I can see why there'd be a desire to cover it up (if it was him dying to a Russia attack in Ukraine) to avoid open escalation. With it being such a proxy war. But I can also see how if the timeline allows for it as you say, then maybe he really did get back uninjured and die at home. From what I could find on aortic tear/dissection, he'd be in the age range where it could have been building up unseen as a problem for a while.
Like this is what one source says on it:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16743-aortic-dissection
So if it was a cover-up, they were certainly careful to choose something as the cause that tracks as believable, while also being subtle enough in how it can occur that (from the sound of it) it wouldn't necessarily be something you'd notice as a problem coming in a medical record.
For the conspiracy angle of it, that same article does also say:
(among factors that can increase risk of aortic tear)
So it's possible that he got injured in Ukraine and it triggered an aortic tear, but you'd think if he was injured there, he'd be kept there rather than shuttled back to Washington. But I spose it could be that he technically did die of an aortic tear while in Ukraine, after getting injured by some attack. And the cover-up is that he died at home.