Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’In response to a question about intelligence cooperation with the US, Sir David Manning, a former ambassador to Washington, said he thought this would become “more difficult” because there was a problem of trust. He explained:If you have some of Trump’s appointees in these key jobs who have very strange track records, and have said very strange things about Nato allies, the Nato alliance and so on, and you have people in the administration who seem to be, let’s say, looking for ways of appeasing Russia, then you have a problem on the intelligence front, because these are not the values that we have. Continue reading...

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Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’In response to a question about intelligence cooperation with the US, Sir David Manning, a former ambassador to Washington, said he thought this would become “more difficult” because there was a problem of trust. He explained:If you have some of Trump’s appointees in these key jobs who have very strange track records, and have said very strange things about Nato allies, the Nato alliance and so on, and you have people in the administration who seem to be, let’s say, looking for ways of appeasing Russia, then you have a problem on the intelligence front, because these are not the values that we have. Continue reading...

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Sir Keir Starmer opened Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 5 March — his first since Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky — with a dig at JD Vance by paying tribute to the hundreds of British soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The PM gave paid tribute to British troops who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq after JD Vance suggested the UK was a 'random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years'

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Donald Trump’s deputy lashed out at a proposed Ukraine peace-keeping force led by the UK and France as ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years’

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JD Vance appeared to described Britain as ‘some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years’

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Donald Trump’s deputy lashed out at a proposed Ukraine peace-keeping force led by the UK and France as ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years’

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JD Vance oddly claimed that an American stake in Ukraine’s economy was a “better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years"

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US Vice President JD Vance is under scrutiny from British MP's and former ministers after referring to the UK as 'some random country that hasn't fought in a war in 30 years'

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Ben McBean, 37, from Plymouth, lost an arm and a leg after stepping on a landmine while patrolling in Afghanistan's notorious Helmand Province in 2008. He said JD Vance's comments were an insult..

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The US Vice President was accused of 'disrespecting' the sacrifice of British troops who fought alongside American servicemen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The US Vice President desperately attempted to clarify his comments after he sparked a furious backlash among military veterans and MPs from all parties.

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Vice President JD Vance made the 'some random country' comment while speaking to Fox News and it has left a bitter taste in the mouths of Brits across social media - with some branding him 'ignorant'

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Military veterans and MPs from across the House of Commons led a furious backlash against Mr Vance's 'shameful' comments and called on him to apologise.

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The Vice President said the only way to secure lasting peace in the region is to grant the US an "economic upside in the future of Ukraine".

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Donald Trump’s deputy lashed out at a proposed Ukraine peace-keeping force led by the UK and France as ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years’

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JD Vance jibed that a force with UK and French boots on the ground amounted to '20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years'.

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China and Canada retaliate after tariffs come into effect – key US politics stories from Monday at a glanceDonald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, last week, according to US media reports.Vance told Fox News in an interview recorded before the announcement on Monday that giving Washington an economic interest in the future of Ukraine will serve as a security guarantee for the country that Russia invaded in February 2022. “If you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine,” Vance said in the interview. “That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years,” he added. Continue reading...

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