Does Vance not even have the juice to throw Hegseth under the bus?
wahh wahh, light speed motorcycles, wahh wahh torpedoes won't fit on speedboats. A bit more than 100 days since hostilities began, I think the crucial question is something more like "are you winning son"
In fact in terms of the argument over whether Riper's Red Team could be considered to have "won" the exercise, I would say that the defenders of the US joint command might have, so to speak, won the battle but lost the war
With greatest respect to the substantial and well informed community of Van Riper Truthers, if the point of the Millennium Challenge was to learn lessons, and one of those lessons was "be careful of Iranians using unconventional tactics" I would have to say it wasn't learnt well
If your voter base is people who work in mines, factories, and shipyards, then you’d do amazing in Indonesia
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He was also brought up in Aberdeen, which has a surprisingly small shipyard given how important the offshore sector is to its economy, but much more employment and value added in the vital manufacturing industry of manufacturing scotch whiskey.
You're MP for a chocolate factory son, don't build your part.
(It is very much underestimated what a significant proportion of the UK manufacturing industry is food manufacturing. People like AI Carns feel happier in a hard hat than a hairnet, I guess)