Backlash After JD Vance Calls UK ‘a Random Country That Hasn’t Fought a War in 40 Years’

Can Meghan save the transatlantic alliance?

It’s a tricky time for the special relationship. Offering a sweepingly negative assessment of Europe’s fighting capability this week, JD Vance may or may not have called us “some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years”. A Daily Star front page featured “J.D. Dunce” in retaliation, and even Nigel Farage has been forced into publicly rebuking his chums across the water. The Vice President has responded by denying he was talking…

The ‘random countries’ lining up to protect Ukraine

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Knob! Clown! Dunce! Disgrace! Crisis! UK Papers Seem *Displeased* With Trump???

American news media may have rushed to embrace the Trump/Russian framing that World War III is “inevitable” because Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy is rude, or something, and dealmaking artist Donald Trump is the only one who can fix it, by surrendering to Putin’s every whim. But the foreign press is under no such delusions! Especially with JD Vance nonstop flapping his jowls and insulting Europe whenever he gets the chance. Honey bunche…

A 'disgrace' and a 'clown': JD Vance's 'random country' comment riles Britain and France

Vice President JD Vance said a U.S. economic deal in Ukraine was a 'better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country.'

Kemi Badenoch jumps to JD Vance’s defence over ‘deeply disrespectful’ comments

Kemi Badenoch has sided with the US Vice President JD Vance over comments he made that one of her own MPs has condemned as “deeply disrespectful”.  In a Fox News interview, Vance argued that the US having an economic stake in Ukraine through a minerals deal is a stronger security guarantee than “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.  The comments have been widely understood to be a dig at the UK and …

British politicians react furiously to JD Vance's rejection of UK, France's role in ending Ukraine war

US vice president's statements ‘foolish and insulting,’ ‘hurtful and thoughtless,’ say politicians - Anadolu Ajansı