Declared a state of war on the United States on 16 February 2026 after strikes on its air defence network. Holds the Continuous At-Sea Deterrent.
At 03:00 on a Friday, engineers at Wright-Patterson revoke access for five allied air forces. By 08:30 GMT the maintenance consoles at RAF Marham start timing out.
Q: Mr President, five allied air forces say their F-35s stopped flying yesterday. Did we do that? A: I don't know anything about that. Ask the Air Force. Those are great planes. We make the best planes in the world. Q: They say the data feeds were cut from our…
Availability across the allied F-35 force falls by more than half in seventy-two hours. The United Kingdom brings forensic logs to Brussels showing the severance was administrative, deliberate, and American.
We built those planes. We sold them those planes. We maintain those planes — at OUR cost, on OUR computers, for THIRTY YEARS. Now they want the planes without us. Doesn't work that way. Never did. They just never had to think about it before.
Twenty minutes into an Article 4 session the shouting starts. When France and Britain call a vote on mutual defence solidarity, the American delegation collects its binders and leaves thirty-one ambassadors sitting in silence.
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.
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…
Ports, insurance, payments, designations. Hungary abstains and refuses to implement. Estonia records that the package "measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
Five heavy transports land at Keflavik in sleet. Royal Marines, French fusiliers, a SAMP/T battery on the Reykjanes lava, and Typhoons on continuous patrol. Iceland's demilitarised status ends overnight.
Britain and France have just put a missile battery on Iceland. Seven hundred miles from our people in Greenland. Pointed west. Pointed at us. Remember who moved first here. It wasn't us and it wasn't today.
Two binders. The first says Iceland can be taken in forty-eight hours. The second says the British Isles cannot be taken at all, and lists the three reasons: the deterrent, the air defence, and sixty-eight million hostile people.
Aster interceptors light the sky over Reykjanes at 02:40 UTC. By 11:20 the British commander surrenders with his ammunition gone. By 15:30 there are armed cordons around the Althing.
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…
184 pages. Hunt the deterrent at 18 to 22 percent confidence. Spend 65 percent of the global standoff inventory in twelve days. Land 160,000 troops across 3,200 miles and lose a quarter of the shipping. Certainty of nuclear retaliation: 95 percent.
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.
The largest surface action between Western powers in eighty years. Gettysburg goes down with thirty-two dead. Keflavik's fuel farm burns. Forty-two percent of the American standoff stockpile is gone, and forty-eight allied warheads are still at sea.
Q: Mr President, the Phase III report is due on Tuesday. Are you going to invade Britain? A: I'm going to read the report on Tuesday. Q: Your own Strategic Command puts the chance of nuclear retaliation at ninety-five percent. A: Where did you get that number?…
The open item on the agenda when the record stops. Amphibious assault readiness, sealift convoy assembly, allied minefield interdiction, and the lodgment timetable. The report is not yet written.
Second morning with no flying at Marham. You get used to the noise and then you notice the shape of it missing. Something is up.
Unusual: zero F-35B movements out of Marham today, zero out of Leeuwarden, and Ørland is quiet too. Three national fleets standing down on the same morning is not weather.
0300 Eastern this morning, Wright-Patt and Fort Worth revoked ODIN access for five allied networks. UK, NL, IT, NO, DK. Telemetry, supply diagnostics, mission data files. All of it, at once, on purpose. This was ordered. It is not an outage.
Compiling reports from four countries. Pattern is consistent: aircraft that are already flying keep flying. Aircraft that need a maintenance system to release them do not get released. That is a very specific kind of failure.
Everything runs on computers now. Computers go down. Ask the Air Force.
The Department does not comment on the technical status of partner nation sustainment networks. U.S. commitments to allied readiness are unchanged.
Breaking: RAF grounds F-35 fleet after loss of US-operated data services. Netherlands, Denmark and Norway confirm similar groundings. Emergency NATO session called.
Sorry, a stupid question. Does "grounded" mean they are broken, or that someone has told them not to fly? I cannot work out from the news which one it is and they seem very different to me.
Not a stupid question at all — it is THE question and the reporting is bad at it. They are not broken. Every one of those aircraft could take off right now. A safety system will not clear them because it cannot phone home to a server in the United States. So: …
Oh. That is much worse, isn't it.
Every defence procurement committee on earth opened a new agenda item this morning and the item is one sentence long: "what in our inventory has a switch we do not own?" I do software. The answer is going to be "almost everything" and it is going to take four …
Prime Minister Frederiksen: "This is an unprecedented, hostile breach of sovereign defence agreements. We are seeking immediate bilateral consultations with the White House."
Serious question from someone who builds things for a living: if you were the Japanese or the Koreans this morning, would you sign the next order? Because I would not. And that is my industry. That is my town.
The important detail is which aircraft are still flying combat air patrols this morning. Typhoon. Rafale. Gripen. Not one of them depends on a server in Texas. Twenty years of procurement argument settled in seventy-two hours.
Seeing a lot of "US hacked the F-35" takes. That is not what happened and the real thing is worse. The F-35 is not a plane you own. It is a plane you subscribe to. Three feeds keep a jet legal to fly: 1. Mission Data Files. Weekly. Tells th…
Everyone is asking whether there is a kill switch. Wrong question. There is no kill switch. There is a subscription. And the vendor has stopped taking your money.
We built those planes. We sold them those planes. We maintain those planes — at OUR cost, on OUR computers, for THIRTY YEARS. Now they want the planes without us. Doesn't work that way. Never did. They just never had to think about it before.
THANK YOU. Thirty years of paying for their defence while they lecture us about our own elections. If they want an air force they can build an air force.
I teach 8th grade. Tomorrow morning a room full of thirteen year olds is going to ask me whether we just sabotaged our allies' planes, and I do not have a good answer. Whatever this is, it is going to be in a textbook. Please think about which paragraph.
Genuine question and not a gotcha: who buys the next batch? I have spent thirty-one years welding things that get sold overseas. If the customer finds out the switch is in Texas, the customer buys French next time. That is my pension you are negotiating with.
I did two tours with Danes. Small army, no complaints, went where we went. You can think Europe underpays and still think this was a filthy way to do it. Both of those fit in one head. Mine has been holding them all afternoon.
I do not really understand what happened with the aeroplanes. My grandson says it is serious. Is it serious?
Eleanor, it is serious but nobody is hurt and nobody is likely to be hurt tonight. Some allied aircraft cannot fly because a computer service was switched off. Go and look at your birds. I mean that kindly. There is nothing you can do about it before morning.
Thank you dear. I had a woodpecker today.
I am a plumber in Copenhagen. I have never written anything political here in nine years. The Americans have switched off our aeroplanes. I do not know what to do with that sentence. My father worked at the base at Karup. We were the good ones. We went to Afgh…
The North Atlantic Council is convening in extraordinary session at the request of Denmark, Germany, France and the United Kingdom under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty.
The American delegation has left the chamber. Not adjourned. Left. Picked up their binders and walked out while the vote was being called. Thirty-one ambassadors are still sitting in there.
I have covered this building for nine years. I have watched every kind of disagreement in it. A diplomat who came out said one sentence to me and went back in: "That was the end of it."
We left the room. Thirty-one countries wanted to vote on what America is allowed to do in America's own hemisphere. You don't get a vote on us. That was never the deal. A lot of people are finding that out this week.
I have spoken this afternoon with Washington, Copenhagen, Berlin, Brussels and London. The Alliance remains in session. Consultation is not optional between allies and it does not end because one chair is empty.
There are helicopters. A lot of helicopters, very low, coming in from the sea. I have never heard anything like this here.
They are American. They are in the harbour and they are at the government buildings and nobody is shooting. Our people are just standing there watching them. I do not understand what is happening.
Confirmed by DR, AFP and Reuters. Landings at Kangerlussuaq around 17:30 UTC, amphibious insertion into Nuuk harbour. Danish Joint Arctic Command under cabinet orders not to engage. No shots fired as of this posting.…
BREAKING: US forces have landed at Kangerlussuaq and taken control of port and government facilities in Nuuk. Danish Arctic Command has not resisted. Cabinet orders were to document, not to engage.
My mum is crying and my little brother thinks it is exciting because of the helicopters. I do not know how to explain to him that it is not exciting. I do not know how to explain it to me.
I have been driving since 2004 and I have never once pulled over to read the news. I am pulled over. Greenland. We invaded Greenland. I am sitting in a truck stop in Nebraska trying to make that sentence mean something.
Nobody was hurt. I want to hold onto that tonight because I work in an ICU and I know exactly what the other version looks like. Nobody was hurt. Everything else can be argued about tomorrow.
Prime Minister Frederiksen to the Folketing: "This is an act of lawless aggression and unprovoked imperial conquest by our supposed treaty partner."
In Latin America we have a very specific feeling this evening and there is no polite English word for it. It is not joy. Nobody wants this. It is the feeling of watching someone finally do to a rich friend what they have done to you for a century, and hearing …
Frederiksen's voice broke on the word "partner". I have never had a strong opinion about her. Tonight she is standing in the Folketing saying the thing out loud that all five million of us are thinking in our kitchens, and her voice broke, and I am not embarra…
My fellow Americans. This evening, at my direction, United States Marines secured the airfields and the harbour of Greenland. There was no resistance. Not one shot was fired and not one person was hurt, on either side, and I want the country to hear that first…
For the record, because we will be arguing about this for a decade: Article 5 cannot be invoked. Its machinery runs through a Council in which the attacking party holds a seat and a veto, and it was drafted to describe an attack from outside the Alliance. Ther…
"Judge me in a month." I have covered this alliance for nine years. Six hours ago the delegation walked out of a room in Brussels and four hours ago Marines landed on the territory of a founding ally. There is going to be a month. I do not think it is going to…
Not one shot fired and not one boy hurt. That is a President. Say what you want. Eighty years of talking about that island and he went and did it in an evening and nobody's mother got a phone call.
I have voted for this administration twice and I preached for it once, which I regret. We took another nation's land tonight because we wanted it and because they could not stop us. There is a word for that and it is in the Book, and it is not a word about str…
"judge me in a month" buddy i am judging you in real time on my phone in a warehouse break room and it is not going great
Kremlin: no comment. Foreign ministry: no statement. State television: fourteen minutes on Greenland, no commentary, footage only. The Russian milblogger channels are the only ones talking, and they are celebrating. Moscow itself is saying nothing at all, and …
My son enlisted in August. He is nineteen. He is at Bragg. I am not asking whether this was right. I am asking whether he is going somewhere cold. That is the only question I have and there is nobody to ask it.
Pastor, I have read your post four times. I do not agree with you. I think you are wrong about the country and I think you will regret saying it from the pulpit. But you are the first person on this app all night who sounded like they were wrestling with it in…
Tanya — nobody can tell you and anyone who says they can is guessing. What I can tell you: if he is at Bragg he is with the best-drilled people in the world and they take care of the nineteen year olds first. Keep the phone charged. Do not doomscroll at 3am, i…
My grandmother is 84. She said one sentence at dinner tonight and then went to bed. "So now they have found out what it is like." She was not being cruel. She has been waiting eighty years for somebody in the west to feel this for one evening.
Ma'am, that is more grace than I have shown anybody today. Thank you. I would rather be wrong in front of you than right in front of people who are enjoying this. There are a lot of them tonight, on both sides, and they frighten me more than the news does.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
The Americans have come into my bakery every Saturday for eleven years. The big one always orders wrong and laughs about it. Today two of them came in and nobody said anything except the order. Eleven years and we could not find a sentence. I gave them the bre…
"We'll fly out of Maine." Sir, I have loaded those aircraft. Flying out of Maine means a tanker crew doing fourteen hour cycles in Arctic weather to put gas in one fighter, every day, forever. They will do it. They will not complain. Somebody should say out lo…
Everyone in Brussels is very brave this week about the Americans leaving. I live four hundred kilometres from Kaliningrad. My yard has cranes and my grandfather had a very different flag over this shipyard. You may all be right about the principle. Please unde…
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.
I am 47, I work in a dental office, I have never followed foreign news in my life. My son is 19 and enlisted in August. Since Monday everyone keeps saying words like NATO and Article 5 and asset freeze and I nod and then I go and cry in the…
Not political. I do not know what any of this means and I am getting nothing from the base. Card did not work at the commissary. Two aircraft that were supposed to take his section out on Monday are still sitting there. Somebody said it is …
Adopted. The European Union has imposed sanctions on the United States of America. Ports, insurance, payments, and a designation list on 2 February. Hungary abstained, which does not block, and has announced it will not implement. Four hours over the scheduled…
What was rejected matters as much. A general ban on US military aircraft and vessels using any EU infrastructure was dropped — Berlin and Paris said it would be "a blockade, drafted and signed." Naming US officials individually was set aside and "held in reser…
Estonia's minority statement, in full, because it is the best sentence anyone has produced this month: "The package as adopted measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
Genuine question for anyone who knows: what happens to ordinary things? I have a US pension from eight years in Boston. My sister banks with an American bank here. Is any of that in this, or is it only governments? Nobody in the coverage says and everyone I as…
Those weapons are American property, in American vaults, with American locks. Nobody needs a letter from me to understand who they belong to.
The port ban is retrospective and follows the vessel, not the voyage. Any hull that has called at US-controlled Greenland since 19 Jan is barred from every EU port, permanently. Charter desks were declining US government business within ninety minutes. Not bec…
Only governments and only named companies. Personal pensions, personal accounts, ordinary retail banking: not in it, not intended to be in it, not going to be in it. What CAN reach you is banks being over-cautious and slow. Annoying, not dangerous. Keep record…
The international rule of law is indivisible. It does not become negotiable because the state breaking it is powerful, or because it was once our closest partner.
Watching European officials discover, live, that a sanctions regime is easy to write and impossible to steer. We have been on the receiving end of eleven of these. Every single one hit a hospital supply chain nobody intended to hit. Every single one had an off…
Every step on this ladder makes the climb down harder.
EU: we have sanctioned the united states of america hungary: we have not EU: you voted for it hungary: i abstained EU: that counts hungary: does it though this is the funniest and worst thing i have ever watched
"I've seen a lot of letters this week." He has seen one. It arrived last night, it is one page long, and it asks for consultation before the warheads move. Not custody. Consultation. There is no reply being drafted. I have now checked three times.
Five heavy transports on the apron at Keflavik in horizontal sleet. RAF and French. Royal Marines coming down the ramps in cold weather kit. Iceland has no army. This morning Iceland has a garrison.
Prime Minister Frostadóttir to the Alþingi: "Iceland holds no armed forces of its own, but we will not allow our sovereign airspace and waters to become an unmonitored corridor for lawless aggression. Keflavik is restored to full defensive operational status."
There are Royal Marines buying coffee in my shop. They were polite. One of them apologised for the queue. Iceland has no army and now there are foreign soldiers here being polite about the queue, and everybody is being very normal about it, and nobody is norma…
Half of Iceland is proud today and half of Iceland is terrified and I have served coffee to both halves since six this morning. The proud ones say we finally have a defence. The terrified ones say we finally have a target. They are both right, which is the wor…
The Prime Minister to the House: "The GIUK gap is not an abstract strategic concept — it is the direct maritime and air shield of the British Isles and Western Europe. We are locking the gate."
Britain and France have just put a missile battery on Iceland. Seven hundred miles from our people in Greenland. Pointed west. Pointed at us. Remember who moved first here. It wasn't us and it wasn't today.
SAMP/T on the Reykjanes lava, Typhoons on CAP, Norwegian P-8s laying sonobuoy barriers across the Denmark Strait. Two hundred men and one missile battery have just turned an open ocean transit into a contested approach. That is what geography buys you. It is a…
A French missile battery. Seven hundred miles from our Marines. Eleven days after we secured the Arctic. Everyone screaming about aggression this month suddenly has nothing to say about this one. Funny how the escalation ladder only counts when we are on it.
It is an air DEFENCE battery. It shoots down things that are flying at it. It cannot hit Greenland, it cannot hit a ship, it cannot hit anything that is not already attacking Iceland. I am not being clever. That is what the letters SAM mean. If the presence of…
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…
Four red-bordered binders went into the Situation Room this afternoon. 184 pages. Albion Anvil . The first American war plan against the British mainland since the founding of the republic. Phase I: hunt the deterrent. DIA confidence 18–22%. Phase II: suppress…
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.
Full hours again this week. Overtime Saturday. My wife asked me last night if I was going to feel bad about the money. I said I did not know. She said "I do", and we sat there. Anyway. Overtime Saturday.
Fifty-two days. I have watched all of it on this little screen my grandson set up. I have learned what a GIUK gap is. I am 74 and I did not need to learn that. Two goldfinches this morning. I am telling you because somebody should say something ordinary today.…
Fifty days ago I was writing about a procurement dispute. Since then I have watched an alliance walk out of its own chamber, stood on a ramp where nobody could buy fuel, and reported from an airfield where nine people were killed by an ally. And the strange pa…
I don't rule things out. That's the whole job.
"I don't rule things out. That's the whole job." Sir. My son is nineteen. He is at Bragg. XVIII Airborne Corps is in that plan and so is he. Rule it out. That is also the job. That is the part of the job where you tell a mother in Indiana that her boy is not g…
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 f…
Tanya, I am 74 and I have nothing useful to offer you except that I am thinking about your boy tonight, and I will again tomorrow. That is not much. I am sending it anyway.
not to be dramatic but I have checked this app 200 times today and the only thing I actually want to see is a post that says "it stopped" that's it. that's the whole ask. six words and I'll log off forever
reporter: will you rule out invading britain president: i don't rule things out reporter: president: reporter: president: that's the whole job sir that is not the whole job. that is not any part of the job. genuinely which part of the job did you think that wa…
Every serving person I know is reading that gaggle tonight and doing the same thing: working out whether their unit is in the troop list. Mine is out. My daughter's godfather's is in. Sir, you have about four days. Rule it out. Not for us — I know how that goe…
There is one item left on the agenda. 24 February. Phase III staging report. Amphibious readiness, sealift convoy assembly, minefield interdiction, lodgment timetable. Everything else in this record has already happened. That one has not been written yet.
Fifty days. Two territories occupied. One alliance broken. Two capital ships and one submarine on the bottom. Forty-one dead that we can count. And the thing that stops it is not a treaty or a summit or a vote. It is two submarines nobody can find. That is the…
Fifty-two days ago I fixed a boiler in Nørrebro and thought about nothing except the boiler. I would like to go back to that. I do not think I get to. I think this is just what the world is now and the rest of my life happens inside it. Anyway. Boiler in Valby…
Day ten. He got another ninety seconds today. He said the British sergeant on his block has started bringing tea round in the morning, and that nobody has decided whether to say thank you, and that everybody says thank you. Two armies. One kettle. That is wher…