British Prime Minister. Declared a state of war on 16 February and holds the Letters of Last Resort.
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.
This morning the British Army entered three American airbases, cut the gates, disarmed United States airmen and locked one thousand one hundred and fifty of them inside their own housing. Those are not prisoners of war. There is no war. They are American servi…
My fellow Americans. At twelve minutes past four this morning, United States forces struck military targets in the United Kingdom. I did not want this. I have said for five weeks that the line stopped at Iceland. It stopped at Iceland until they took our peopl…
148 cruise missiles cross the line of departure at 04:12 GMT. Eighty-four are shot down and sixty-four get through. Newport News is torpedoed and scuttled. Both Vanguards remain undetected. Britain declares a state of war.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
This morning the British Army entered three American airbases, cut the gates, disarmed United States airmen and locked one thousand one hundred and fifty of them inside their own housing. — Written statement, the White House
Two independent European nuclear deterrents have just been placed under a single combined wartime command for the first time in their history. A second Vanguard has sailed from Faslane. The French have dispersed nuclear-armed Rafales to secondary runways at fi…
1,150 Americans. Held. By Britain. I have listened to six weeks of lectures about norms from people who are now holding American kids in a fenced housing block. Every single one of you owes this country an apology and none of you will give one.
"There is no war." There has been an armed attack by the forces of one state on the forces of two others, on the sovereign territory of a fourth, with fatalities. The legal threshold was crossed at 02:40 on 9 February and it does not depend on anybody using th…
Eleven hundred and fifty Americans interned by Britain. I want everyone posting "they had it coming" to sit with that number for one minute. Those are 1,150 people who did not vote on any of this, who were sent there, who have kids in Suffolk schools. You can …
Two days ago American forces killed nine French servicemen and captured 154 British and French soldiers on the territory of a third ally. I am genuinely not trying to score a point, because I think you are right that those 1,150 people are innocent. But "held"…
Half of Cork spent tonight explaining to the other half that Ireland is not in NATO and never was. The other half's answer, universally: "and what good is that to us if it kicks off in the Irish Sea?" Nobody had a reply. Least of all me.
My husband is one of the 1,150. You are both right and it does not help me. He is innocent AND it happened second AND he is still behind that fence AND nine French families are burying people. There is no arrangement of those facts that lets anybody win this a…
I will say this once and then I am muting the replies. Do not post guesses about where the boats are. Do not post fishing fleet reports, do not post "my mate at Faslane," do not post sonar hobbyist charts. The entire value of the deterrent is that nobody knows…
Inbound tracks over the north of Scotland. This is not an exercise and it is not a probe. Cruise missiles are hitting the United Kingdom.
At 04:12 GMT the United Kingdom came under sustained cruise missile attack by the armed forces of the United States. Air defences are engaging. The public should follow the guidance of local authorities and stay away from military installations.
Woke up at ten past four to what I thought was thunder. I am fifty-eight years old and I have just heard a war start over my own house.
School is open today. I checked at five in the morning because I did not know if that was still automatic. Thirty children are going to walk into my classroom in two hours and I am going to teach them about the Louisiana Purchase.
I remember the last one. I was three, so I remember my mother's face and not much else. I did not expect to see her face on my own in the mirror this morning. I am so terribly sorry, all of you. I truly thought we had finished with this.
My grandfather flew out of Norfolk in 1943. Norfolk, England, not Virginia. He is buried forty minutes from Lakenheath. We are bombing the country that buried him. I do not have a bigger thought than that and I have been trying to have one since four this morn…
Reconstructing the first salvo: 148 weapons launched. 84 intercepted — Aster 30 from Type 45s in the Forth and the Humber, Sky Sabre over the Scottish coast, 19 taken by QRA Typhoons with Meteor and ASRAAM. 64 leaked through. Buchan and Benbecula radars destro…
The Prime Minister has informed the House that a State of War exists between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Five weeks ago I posted that it was quiet at Marham and something was up. I want to go back to that morning and stay in it.
My fellow Americans. At twelve minutes past four this morning, United States forces struck military targets in the United Kingdom. — Address to the nation, the Oval Office
He did not want this. They took our people. They put subs to sea. They moved first at Lakenheath. We are behind him. Bring them home.
I have defended nearly all of this and I am not going to pretend otherwise now. I cannot defend this one. Britain. I do not know a single person in this town who thinks we should be shooting at Britain and I know a lot of people who have been with him the whol…
"I did not want this." Sir, on the nineteenth of January you had no plan to take Greenland and you took it. On the ninth of February you told us the line stopped at Iceland. It is the sixteenth. I preached forgiveness on Sunday to a half-empty church. I am not…
The under-reported number from last night is not the missiles that hit. It is the missiles that were spent. Fourteen percent of the entire American global JASSM-ER inventory, in twelve hours, against the radar picture of one medium-sized country. Phase II need…
my manager asked me to stay late today. there is a war on with britain. there is a WAR ON WITH BRITAIN. and this man wants me to cover the evening shift. i said yes. what else is there. rent is on the first either way.
respect for saying it. genuinely. no dunk. this app would be about forty percent less poisonous if more people could type "I cannot defend this one" without it meaning they lost.
Six anxiety presentations tonight and it is not even eleven. Two panic attacks in the waiting room. One elderly gentleman convinced the missiles are coming here. I told him they are not. I believe that. I checked twice before I said it, which is not something …
Newport News has been lost. Spearfish, aft compartment, blew to the surface and was scuttled by her own crew. Ambush took a Mk 48 in return and is limping home on the electric drive. And in twelve days of the hardest ASW anyone has ever attempted, they have no…
Every American aircraft that flew west out of this continent last month is now bombing a European country. I said in January that some of us were doing arithmetic. Here is the answer to the arithmetic: there is nobody coming. Not for them, not for us. We are a…
A state of war between the United States and the United Kingdom. My grandfather fought alongside both of them. I typed that sentence into a translation app three times because I did not believe I had understood the English correctly.