The President of the United States
microblog · @POTUS · state · 21 January 2026, 11:40
They have closed their runways to us. Their runways — which we paid for, which we built, which we have defended since before their parliaments existed in their current form.
So we'll fly out of Maine. It's further. It costs more. Every tanker crew in this country is about to work harder than they have ever worked and I am asking them to do it.
And when this is finished, we are going to have a very serious conversation in this country about why the United States Air Force ever needed permission from anybody to fly.
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Every sortie from the domestic hubs runs more than 3,200 nautical miles round trip. Within days, mechanics in Greenland were reporting critical shortages of de-icing fluid and cold-weather lubricants, and fuel burn was outrunning the reserve at Pituffik.
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21 Jan 2026 09:00
I have about $40k in savings. It took eleven years to get there. I am not rich and I cannot afford to be clever. Yesterday the EU froze US government assets. Today my banking app looks exactly the same as it did on Friday. I do not know whe…
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21 Jan 2026 10:00
Host nations revoke diplomatic clearance for American tanker sorties at Ramstein and Mildenhall, and close western European airspace to any aircraft staging toward the Arctic.
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@flightpicket · osint
21 Jan 2026 10:40
Every US tanker track out of Mildenhall and Ramstein has gone dark this morning. Not rerouted. Gone. Host nations have pulled the diplomatic clearances. No tankers means no Atlantic air operations from Europe. That is the whole game.
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@DefenceHQ · state
21 Jan 2026 11:00
In coordination with allies, the United Kingdom has suspended diplomatic clearance for US offensive staging and aerial refuelling operations from UK territory. Support for NATO eastern flank rotations continues unaffected.
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@A_Verhoeven · analyst
21 Jan 2026 11:35
Note the second sentence. Nobody is thinning the eastern flank to punish Washington. Not one government has been willing to make Moscow the beneficiary of this. That restraint is the most impressive thing anyone has done this month.
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Remarks at Joint Base Andrews
21 Jan 2026 11:40
They have closed their runways to us. Their runways — which we paid for, which we built, which we have defended since before their parliaments existed in their current form. So we'll fly out of Maine. It's further. It costs more. Every tanker crew in this coun…
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@ktown_mel · civilian
21 Jan 2026 12:00
People keep saying "the Germans closed the runways" like it is a headline. The man who closed the runway coaches my son's football team on Wednesdays. He came round on Sunday with a cake. He looked absolutely wretched about it. None of this is happening betwee…
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@heidi_koeln · civilian
21 Jan 2026 12:20
The Americans have come into my bakery every Saturday for eleven years. The big one always orders wrong and laughs about it. Today two of them came in and nobody said anything except the order. Eleven years and we could not find a sentence. I gave them the bre…