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@rvk_barista · 31 Jan 2026 · 11:20

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Elín @rvk_barista · 31 Jan 2026 · 11:20

There are Royal Marines buying coffee in my shop.

They were polite. One of them apologised for the queue. Iceland has no army and now there are foreign soldiers here being polite about the queue, and everybody is being very normal about it, and nobody is normal at all.

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31 January 2026 · in the recordAllies garrison Iceland

Five heavy transports land at Keflavik in sleet. Royal Marines, French fusiliers, a SAMP/T battery on the Reykjanes lava, and Typhoons on continuous patrol. Iceland's demilitarised…