No jargon. No takes. Just the sequence.
**10 Jan** — The US switched off the data service that allied F-35s need. Half of Europe's stealth fleet stopped flying in three days.
**17 Jan** — The officials who said the money for this was illegal were fired.
**19 Jan** — The US walked out of NATO's council at lunchtime and landed Marines in Greenland that evening. Nobody fired a shot.
**20 Jan** — The EU froze US state assets. This later stopped the US from buying fuel to leave Europe.
**21–23 Jan** — Europe closed its airspace and bases to US offensive flights. The US built a 3,200-mile supply line from Maine.
**26 Jan** — The withdrawal from Europe stalled on the runway at Ramstein. Germany asked what happens to the nuclear weapons at Büchel. It got no answer.
**27 Jan** — The EU sanctioned the United States for the first time in history. Hungary refused to implement.
**29 Jan** — Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium sealed the airfields holding US nuclear weapons. They are still sealed.
**31 Jan** — Britain, France and Norway put a garrison into Iceland.
**9 Feb** — The US attacked it. Nine French dead, 154 prisoners, Iceland occupied.
**11 Feb** — Britain interned 1,150 US personnel. France invoked Article 42.7. Two nuclear deterrents went to a combined command.
**16 Feb** — The US fired 148 cruise missiles at Britain. Britain declared a state of war.
**18–19 Feb** — The largest naval battle between western powers in 80 years. USS Gettysburg sunk, 32 dead.
**Today** — Everyone is waiting to see whether an amphibious invasion of the United Kingdom is ordered on the 24th.
That is it. That is the whole thing.
u/lisbon_reader: Saving this. My mother asked me on Sunday what was going on and I could not do it in under an hour.
u/why_though: Every single line of this is about what was done. Not one line says why.
Fifty days, two occupations, a naval battle, and there has not been a single public statement of war aims from Washington. No address, no press conference, nothing. Has that ever happened before in a war between developed states?
u/plain_language_eu: I tried to write a "why" section and deleted it three times, because everything I could write was inference.
The honest answer is: publicly, nobody knows. That is not a gap in my summary. It is a fact about this war.
u/tallinn_est: Estonian. We wrote in a minority statement on 27 January that the sanctions "measure the rope while the arson is at the door."
Three weeks later there is a war and we are still measuring. I take no satisfaction in it whatsoever.
u/moscow_correspondent: Add one line to your timeline and it becomes a different document:
**Every day** — Russia said nothing, did nothing, moved nothing and spent nothing.
Fifty days, and the only state that has improved its position has not participated.