NATO Secretary General. Spent the rupture asking Washington for one page of paper.
The largest American movement out of Europe since 1990 stops on the ramp at Ramstein. Not for politics: the asset freeze broke the payment chain, and no supplier can lawfully sell the Air Force any more Jet A. Berlin asks about the B61s.
The Secretary General writes directly to the President. Not custody, not security, not a change in who holds the weapons. One page conceding that the oldest guarantee in the alliance will not end by departure rather than by decision.
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.