They put a missile battery seven hundred miles from our troops and pointed it at them.
I am sorry about the nine. I am. But do not ask me to pretend those men were standing on that rock by accident, or that the alternative was nobody getting hurt.
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@VetDadJoe · 9 Feb 2026 · 11:15
The battery was invited by a parliament, eleven days after we took Greenland by force.
I have been on the side of "the mission is the mission" my whole adult life. But you do not get to move first, twice, and then call the other man's rifle provocation. That is not toughness. My grandfather would have had a word for it and it was not a nice one.
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9 February 2026 · in the recordOperation Northern HingeAster interceptors light the sky over Reykjanes at 02:40 UTC. By 11:20 the British commander surrenders with his ammunition gone. By 15:30 there are armed cordons around the Althin…