Ask HN: Any updates on Nord Stream pipeline sabotage?

  >You described Germany! Britain and France are quite independent...

Germany I'll give you. They've definitely been putting in a herculean effort on the American Poodle front of late. But they'll have to go some to beat the UK's decades' long subservience. When it comes to foreign policy, the UK is basically a US satellite state.

France, on the other hand, were historically probably the Western European nation most likely to tell the US 'Non!' --although, that seems to be increasingly a thing of the past now too.