has addressed US Vice President ‘s savage comments after he dismissed during a discussion about peace talks with .
Following President ‘s explosive meeting with , Vance said the US should have an “economic upside in the future of ” and that the only way to guarantee peace was to get involved.
The politician then branded Britain as “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 years” while criticising the strategy to dispatch 20,000 British and French soldiers as part of a peacekeeping mission in .
When asked for his thoughts, the Reform Party leader raged: “JD Vance is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
“For 20 years in Afghanistan pro rata, our size against America’s. We spent the same amount of money, we put the same number of men and women in, and we suffered the same losses.”
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Nigel Farage was questioned on JD Vance live on GB News (Image: X)
Farage continued: “We stood by America all through those 20 years, putting in exactly the same contributions. Alright, they may be six times bigger but we did our bit, so on this one, JD is wrong.”
The comments also angered GB News viewers, who took to social media to voice their anger, including one who stated, “Vance is showing he’s well over his head in the job.”
Another added: “Well done Nigel, the only leader that has come out and said that so Far. As an Ex Serviceman thank you for your support and Reform will be getting my votes going forward.”
As a third remarked: “Must be bad if Nigel is saying his friends are wrong.”
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JD Vance labelled Britain a random country (Image: X)
Another viewer added: “Trump and Vance giving a hard time to their political allies in Europe and Canada. That’s some real 4D chess moves.”
As a fifth put: ” It’s really an incredible feat by @jdvance to have antagonized every single political party in the UK, including the Trump admin’s ideological counterparts in and Reform.”
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