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@POTUS · 16 Feb 2026 · 12:30

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The President of the United States @POTUS · 16 Feb 2026 · 12:30 address

My fellow Americans. At twelve minutes past four this morning, United States forces struck military targets in the United Kingdom.

— Address to the nation, the Oval Office

what was actually happening

The opening salvo consumed fourteen percent of the entire American global inventory of standoff cruise missiles in twelve hours. One attack submarine was lost. Neither British deterrent submarine was located. The plan he had authorised assigned that hunt a maximum confidence of 22 percent before it began.

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Pastor Bill @pastor_bill_tx · 16 Feb 2026 · 14:15
Replying to @POTUS

"I did not want this."

Sir, on the nineteenth of January you had no plan to take Greenland and you took it. On the ninth of February you told us the line stopped at Iceland. It is the sixteenth.

I preached forgiveness on Sunday to a half-empty church. I am not able to preach this. I am asking my congregation to pray for the British and I expect to be called something for it by Wednesday.

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Rachel @rally_rachel · 16 Feb 2026 · 13:00
Replying to @POTUS

He did not want this. They took our people. They put subs to sea. They moved first at Lakenheath.

We are behind him. Bring them home.

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Deb @deb_in_ohio · 16 Feb 2026 · 14:00
Replying to @POTUS

I have defended nearly all of this and I am not going to pretend otherwise now.

I cannot defend this one. Britain. I do not know a single person in this town who thinks we should be shooting at Britain and I know a lot of people who have been with him the whole way.

I am not switching sides. I am just saying it out loud once.

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sam @quietquitter99 · 16 Feb 2026 · 16:00
Replying to @deb_in_ohio

respect for saying it. genuinely. no dunk.

this app would be about forty percent less poisonous if more people could type "I cannot defend this one" without it meaning they lost.

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What was happening
16 February 2026 · in the recordPhase I: the first strikes on Britain since 1945

148 cruise missiles cross the line of departure at 04:12 GMT. Eighty-four are shot down and sixty-four get through. Newport News is torpedoed and scuttled. Both Vanguards remain un…