It’s amazing how easily nations forget about their history. During the Second World War, Germany was fighting a two-front war it could not win. In the east, Germans were fighting to annex Western Russia to make it part of their Third Reich. They were also fighting the Anglo-American Empire in the west. And after that war, the Anglo originally intended to destroy German industry for good.

Now that the gas pipeline North Stream 1 has been found sabotaged in at least four different places, the usual suspects (CNN and other low-quality news sources) instantly started pointing fingers at Russia. Without evidence, of course. But why would Russia want to self-destruct a previously important stream of revenue, enough to fund their war against Ukraine?

Without an operational NS1 pipeline, Russia can no longer come to the rescue of Europeans freezing in the cold winter ahead. An important tie between Russia and German industry has been severed. Imagining NS1 will never come back online, Germany in particular, and Europe by extension, will take an extreme hit in years to come.

That brings us back to not-so-ancient history when the British Empire felt deeply threatened by a possible alliance of German industry and Russian resources. (Otto von Bismarck, the German unifier, had said that “success in politics means to have good deals with Russia”).

Even today, Germany plays a crucial role in Anglo-Russian rivalry. Who shall rule the world? The Anglo and their control of the seas? Or the Rus and their control of Eurasia? Geopolitically speaking, a British attack on NS1 makes perfect sense—from a British perspective—to disable German industry and, therewith, cripple the Russian economy that profited so much from Germany’s material needs.

But this also implies that the Anglo-American friends of NATO are no longer friends of continental Europe. Now that Britain has left the EU, we mainland Europeans may need to reconsider our relation to the Anglosphere. When it comes to securing our own survival, we simply cannot allow the Anglo-Americans to sabotage Europe for their personal gain.

If a British sabotage of NS1 can be proven, it ought to be regarded a declaration of war on all continental Europeans.