{"id":61580,"date":"2025-05-29T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61580"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:31:23","slug":"jd-vance-with-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61580","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance with"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-793.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-793.png 358w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-793-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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>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>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>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>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>but at nations without recent battlefield experience. Still, the backlash raised concerns over the importance of diplomatic sensitivity with allies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61567\">also  read&#8230;<\/a><\/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":61581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61582,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61580\/revisions\/61582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}