There are army trucks on the Brandon road going up to the base. Lots of them. Somebody at the shop said they have closed the gates from the outside.
My kids went to school with their kids. This is not a place where this happens.
Suffolk mum
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@BBCBreaking · press
11 Feb 2026 08:20
BBC Breaking News
Breaking: British forces have requisitioned RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Fairford. Around 1,150 US personnel have been disarmed and confined to base housing. Seventeen US aircraft seized.
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@lawofarmedconf · analyst
11 Feb 2026 09:05
Law of Armed Conflict
The word being used is "internment," and it is the correct one. These are the armed forces of a state now in armed conflict with the host state, on the host state's territory. Eleven days ago they were allies with base passes. The law changed the moment the mi…
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@dave_norwich · civilian
11 Feb 2026 09:10
Dave
They have shut the gates from the outside. Twenty-two years those lads have been in my pub. There is a bloke called Marcus who taught my daughter to throw a football on the green out the back. He is behind a fence this morning and my army put him there. I have…
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@dave_norwich · civilian
11 Feb 2026 10:00
Dave
Everyone in this thread has an opinion about international law and I have an opinion about Marcus, who is 24, from Ohio, and who fixed my generator for free in the storm two winters ago. He is behind a fence this morning. That is all the law I have got in me t…
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wire record
11 Feb 2026 10:30
Lakenheath, 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 Faslane in the dark.
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@Number10 · state
11 Feb 2026 11:00
UK Prime Minister
The Prime Minister to the House of Commons: "American arms have shed British and French blood in an unprovoked, illegal act of war on sovereign allied territory. The alliance that stood for eighty years has been torn apart from Washington. We will defend this …
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@anon_airman_wife · civilian
11 Feb 2026 12:00
anonymous, Suffolk
He is fine. He rang for ninety seconds on a landline and said he is fine and they are being correct with everyone. Our neighbour Sue brought a lasagne round at half seven this morning. She did not say anything about any of it. She just handed me the dish and s…
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@Elysee · state
11 Feb 2026 12:30
Élysée
Le Président active l'article 42.7 du traité sur l'Union européenne. Les intérêts vitaux de la France sont indissociables de l'intégrité du sol européen. President Macron activates Article 42.7 TEU. France's vital interests are inseparable from the integrity o…
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