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In a very public performance, the US removed its air force bombers from the UK's RAF Fairford today, ostensibly due to a terrorism threat. The British government insists that the RAF base is totally safe. Who's right? This is probably little more than a bullying tactic designed to put more pressure on the British government to do its bidding, regardless of the weakness of this particular case. Britain is the European centre of the US war machine and RAF Fairford, its home base. The British airfield acts as the headquarters for the US 501st Combat Support Wing and the 420th Air Base Squadron. Housing the headquarters of a foreign country's military units is the picture of vassaldom. If the withdrawal is permanent then all antiwar activists should celebrate. My latest Substack details the strange events concerning RAF Fairford that have unfolded over the past week. Read it here: tariqali1943.substack.com/p/deja-vu-at-fai...