Putin has declared that the Anglo-Saxons are to blame for the explosions in the Nord Stream pipelines. He is using Anglo-Saxons in the disparaging sense of the Anglophone - US and UK with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand sometimes thrown in as well.
But those in the know can read between the lines. One twitter account has done some deep research and found some evidence in the Bayeux Tapestry. These were out-takes omitted in the final version.
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This is backed up by history in the Black Sea region. Russia can carry a chip on the shoulder for centuries.
New England (medieval) was a colony established after the Norman invasion of Anglo-Saxon Britain.
New England (Latin: Nova Anglia, Old English: Nīwe Englaland) was a colony allegedly founded, either in the 1070s or the 1090s, by English refugees fleeing William the Conqueror. Its existence is attested in two much later sources, the French Chronicon Universale Anonymi Laudunensis (which ends in 1219) and the 14th-century Icelandic Játvarðar Saga. They tell the story of a journey from England through the Mediterranean Sea that led to Constantinople, where the English refugees fought off a siege by heathens and were rewarded by the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus. A group of them were given land to the north-east of the Black Sea, reconquering it and renaming their territory "New England".
So really, Putin's beef is with the Normans. They started the ball rolling.
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