{"id":2639,"date":"2025-06-01T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2025-06-01T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:01:46","slug":"jd-vance-with-tears-in-their-eyes-make-the-sad-announcement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=2639","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance with tears in their eyes make the sad announcement\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK responded sharply to Vice President Vance\u2019s comments, with British veterans and military leaders condemning them as disrespectful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figures like Johnny Mercer, Andy McNab, Lord West, and General Sir Patrick Sanders emphasized the sacrifices of 636 British soldiers in Iraq<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and Afghanistan and the close UK-U.S. alliance. Political leaders, including Shadow Defense Secretary James Cartlidge and former Foreign Secretary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Cleverly, also criticized Vance, urging him to recognize the shared sacrifices. Prime Minister Keir Starmer highlighted national pride<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in the military and stressed the need for mutual respect among allies. In response, Vance clarified his remarks were not aimed at the UK or France,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but at nations without recent battlefield experience. Still, the backlash raised concerns over the importance of diplomatic sensitivity with allies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK responded sharply to Vice President Vance\u2019s comments, with British veterans and military leaders condemning them as disrespectful. Figures like Johnny Mercer, Andy McNab, Lord West,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}