The bombers left Fairford. Good. Britain just stopped being the parking lot for someone else’s war. Twelve B-1s sat in Gloucestershire so Washington could shave hours off a flight to Iran. That is not an alliance. That is a runway rental with a flag on it. Then someone waves a threat at the base and the jets scramble home to South Dakota while the locals get the arrests, the sirens, and the bill. You do not have to like Tehran to notice the pattern. Foreign bombers, foreign target list, British postcode. When it goes wrong, the crater is not in Virginia. Sovereignty is a boring word until heavy metal takes off over your village to hit a country you did not vote to bomb. The planes leaving is the first honest thing that airfield has done all year. Keep them gone. Fight your own wars or stay out of them. Do not subcontract the runway.