British veterans felt the slap first. Anger surged from regimental WhatsApp groups to the front pages in hours. A single remark from U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance was heard not as nuance, but as insult. Men who bled in Basra and Helmand felt their dead written out of history. The backlash grew, ministers weighed in, and the supposedly “unbreakable” alliance sudde… Continues…