the podium · Posted at 20:40 · 29 January 2026, 20:40
Great numbers out of the shipyards today. Best hiring month in eleven years. Nobody reports it.
Everything in Germany is completely normal and completely under control.
At that hour, about sixty American thermonuclear weapons had been sealed inside allied police cordons at Büchel, Volkel and Kleine Brogel for three hours. The custodial airmen were on emergency base power and field rations. Nothing has moved since.
URGENT: German military police have sealed the perimeter access roads at Büchel Air Base. Dutch and Belgian forces reported doing the same at Volkel and Kleine Brogel. All three sites store US nuclear weapons.
Precision matters tonight, so: The Americans have not been disarmed. Nobody has approached the inner wire. The vaults are American, the codes are American, and no host nation can open, arm or move anything. The airfield is German. The tower is German. The powe…
Feldjäger patrol vehicles park across the access road at Büchel and turn on their blue lights. Within forty minutes the same thing happens at Volkel and Kleine Brogel. Nobody approaches the inner wire.
There are four hundred American service members inside those fences tonight on generator power. Every single conversation about this is about the weapons. I understand why. I would just like one person in the coverage to remember that there are people standing…
Chancellor Merz to the Bundestag: "The weapons belong to the United States; the ground they sit upon belongs to the Federal Republic of Germany. No nuclear weapon will be moved, flown or loaded across German territory without the explicit written authorisation…
They have put police vans across the road at Büchel. My grandfather is 91. He heard it on the radio and he said: "das ist wo die Bomben sind." That is where the bombs are. He has known that his whole adult life. He has never once said it out loud in this house…
Correcting several bad takes at once. Nobody has seized a nuclear weapon. The host nations have not gone near the vaults. They parked vehicles across an access road, put up barrier gates, and turned on blue lights. Nobody can seize a nuclea…
The Nuclear Planning Group met this afternoon in restricted session. Article 4 was invoked by four Allies. The decision of the host nations is on the record of the Alliance. I asked Washington, three days ago, for one page of paper. I am still asking.