URGENT: German military police have sealed the perimeter access roads at Büchel Air Base. Dutch and Belgian forces reported doing the same at Volkel and Kleine Brogel. All three sites store US nuclear weapons.
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@AFP · 29 Jan 2026 · 17:44
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My cousin is one of the Feldjäger on that road tonight.
He rang his mother at nine and said: "Wir stehen nur da. Sie stehen auch nur da." We are just standing there. They are just standing there too.
That is the whole thing. Two sets of young men standing in the rain because older men could not sign a piece of paper.
There are four hundred American service members inside those fences tonight on generator power.
Every single conversation about this is about the weapons. I understand why. I would just like one person in the coverage to remember that there are people standing next to them, and that somebody is married to each of them.
Japan is the only country that has been on the receiving end of these weapons.
I want to say something profound and I find I only have something small: my grandmother is 88 and she watched the news about Büchel with no expression at all, and then she got up and made tea, and I have never seen her look older.
What was happening
29 January 2026 · in the recordThe cordons close around the vaultsFeldjäger patrol vehicles park across the access road at Büchel and turn on their blue lights. Within forty minutes the same thing happens at Volkel and Kleine Brogel. Nobody appro…