Told by two people in two capitals: allied availability on fifth-gen is now under 50%. The word being used privately is not "outage." The word being used privately is "severance."
Mairead Hollis
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Mairead Hollis
@H_MaireadDefence correspondent. Was in Brussels for the walkout. Was at Keflavik for the rest. DMs open, signal in bio.
I have covered this building for nine years. I have watched every kind of disagreement in it.
A diplomat who came out said one sentence to me and went back in: "That was the end of it."
"Judge me in a month."
I have covered this alliance for nine years. Six hours ago the delegation walked out of a room in Brussels and four hours ago Marines landed on the territory of a founding ally.
There is going to be a month. I do not think it is going to go the way he thinks it is going to go.
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The President of the United States
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·19 Jan 2026 · 21:00
My fellow Americans. This evening, at my direction, United States Marines secured the airfields and the harbour of Greenland. There was no resistance. Not one shot was fired and not one person was hurt, on either side, a…
Fifty days ago I was writing about a procurement dispute.
Since then I have watched an alliance walk out of its own chamber, stood on a ramp where nobody could buy fuel, and reported from an airfield where nine people were killed by an ally.
And the strange part is that we have been told why, constantly, at length, from the Oval Office, four times. I have the transcripts. I have read them until the words came apart.
On 9 February he told the country the line stopped at Iceland. Seven days later he was addressing us again with a different reason. Both times he sounded completely certain. That is not a man hiding his aims. I no longer think there is a hidden one.