Marek, from Tartu: yes. Every word.
The people posting "good riddance" tonight all live at least a thousand kilometres further west than we do. It is very easy to be principled about a shield when you are standing behind two other people.
Lena
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21 Jan 2026 09:00
Should ordinary people be moving money out of dollars? Serious question, please no panic.
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
The basing lockout
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
Flight Picket
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
UK Ministry of Defence
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
Dr. Anke Verhoeven
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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@POTUS · state
21 Jan 2026 11:40
The President of the United States
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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Remarks at Joint Base Andrews
21 Jan 2026 11:40
On the closure of European bases
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
Mel
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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