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@POTUS · 11 Feb 2026 · 13:00

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The President of the United States @POTUS · 11 Feb 2026 · 13:00 statement

This morning the British Army entered three American airbases, cut the gates, disarmed United States airmen and locked one thousand one hundred and fifty of them inside their own housing.

— Written statement, the White House

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Three days later he was handed Operation Albion Anvil: 184 pages, a deterrent hunt at 18 to 22 percent confidence, 40,000 to 60,000 projected American casualties, and a Strategic Command annex putting nuclear retaliation at 95 percent certainty.

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Rachel @rally_rachel · 11 Feb 2026 · 13:30
Replying to @POTUS

1,150 Americans. Held. By Britain.

I have listened to six weeks of lectures about norms from people who are now holding American kids in a fenced housing block. Every single one of you owes this country an apology and none of you will give one.

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Siobhán @siobhan_cork · 11 Feb 2026 · 15:00
Replying to @rally_rachel

Two days ago American forces killed nine French servicemen and captured 154 British and French soldiers on the territory of a third ally.

I am genuinely not trying to score a point, because I think you are right that those 1,150 people are innocent. But "held" and "captured" are the same word and one of them happened first.

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Law of Armed Conflict @lawofarmedconf · 11 Feb 2026 · 13:40

"There is no war."

There has been an armed attack by the forces of one state on the forces of two others, on the sovereign territory of a fourth, with fatalities. The legal threshold was crossed at 02:40 on 9 February and it does not depend on anybody using the word.

The internment at Lakenheath is lawful precisely because there is a war. You cannot have the first half of that sentence without the second.

TP The President of the United States @POTUS ·11 Feb 2026 · 13:00

This morning the British Army entered three American airbases, cut the gates, disarmed United States airmen and locked one thousand one hundred and fifty of them inside their own housing. — Written statement, the White H…
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11 February 2026 · in the recordLakenheath, and the combined command

British sappers cut the barrier interlocks at Gate 2 and 1,150 American airmen are interned in their own base housing. Paris activates Article 42.7. A second Vanguard leaves Faslan…