🤦‍♂️JD Vance with tears in their eyes make the sad announcement

The backlash in Britain was less about one American politician and more about a fear that blood and sacrifice had been casually discounted. Veterans who served shoulder to shoulder with U.S. troops in Basra and Helmand heard in Vance’s words not a technical point about “combat experience,” but a dismissal of the 636 British personnel who never came home. Their response, echoed by figures like Johnny Mercer and Andy McNab, was a demand to be seen, not sentimentalized.