Vice President J.D. Vance's casual dismissal of the United Kingdom during an interview on Fox News on Monday night led to a furious tirade from MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday morning.
Speaking with host Sean Hannity, Vance downplayed Britain's support for Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky as "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years"
After sharing the clip, the "Morning Joe" host launched into a brutal tirade aimed at the VP, who has been heavily criticized for his sneering attack on Zelensky in the Oval Office last Friday that shocked the world.
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"We can do fact checks," the MSNBC host blurted. "And this 'random country,' Great Britain, the country, we have a special relationship."
''Some random country,'" he repeated. "Well, here's a list of recent wars that that random country fought alongside with the United States: in 1990, the Gulf war, the British lost 47 lives. 1992, the Bosnian war –– 59 British personnel died. 1998 the Kosovo war, they fought alongside of us and 72 Brits killed. 2000, the Sierra Leone civil war, two personnel died. 2000 war, 2001 the war i Afghanistan, 457 British personnel lost their lives. 2003 the Iraq war 179 Brits lost their lives, 136 killed in hostile incidents."
"And then you go on and you see that the overall war on terror was proportionately 12 percent deadlier for the United Kingdom than it was for Americans, based on the number of troops deployed and the number of troops killed," he detailed. "Three times the number of British troops were shot and killed in Afghanistan than they were in Iraq, and a UK soldier was twice as likely to be shot and killed than their U.S. counterpart."
The exasperated Scarborough then blurted, "I don't know where to begin."
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