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Adversary fear of the U.S. military is what makes President Donald Trump scheduled to hold a tough negotiation with the Russian president Vladimir Putin Possibly, Vice President JD Vance U.S. troops were told Wednesday that they were stationed in England.
Vance has met with several European leaders over the past few days to prepare for Trump’s meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, while Putin tries to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“You did it,” former Marine Vance, Tell the U.S. Army stationed at RAF Base Fairford. “You are the reasons why we are able to negotiate with strength. You are the reasons why we have these conversations with world leaders. Because they know that if we make an agreement, it will be supported by the best combat power in the world. That’s what makes your work so important.”
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Vice President Vance shook hands with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at a meeting at Chevening House in England on August 8, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett/Getty Images)
“The fact that people impress you is frankly the fact that this fact is why we are able to do what we do as government,” Vance said.
Fairford, RAF, is home to the 501st Combat Support Wing and the 99th Expedition Reconnaissance Squadron. This is also crucial for the US Air Force operations and is the preferred bomber advance combat base for the Air Force Global Strike Command in Europe.
The Air Force will usually send bomb aircraft to military bases as part of the European bomber task force and 25-2 to NATO allies for training. For example, several Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers from Fairford conducted an exercise with Germany and Romania on the eastern flank of NATO in March 2022, after Putin invaded it into Ukraine.
According to the Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations Committee, about 10,000 U.S. troops are headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Vance told the troops that he had just called about 30 European leaders, following in various meetings with other European allies on Ukraine talks in recent days.
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President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Spar at the Oval Office meeting in February. (Getty)
A U.S. official told Fox News that a meeting with representatives of Ukraine and other European allies on Saturday led to “significant progress” in Ukraine’s conflict. More details of the discussion are not available yet.
But Vance said in an interview on Sunday that he told European leaders that the United States “finished through funds from Ukraine’s war operations” that they must bear more burdens to resolve the war.
“We’re talking to Europeans simply, ‘First, this is in your woods. It’s in your back door. You have to step up and play a bigger role in this matter, and if you care so much about this conflict, you should be willing to raise this war in a more direct and substantial way to raise this war for this war.”
Trump told reporters on Monday that he was able to tell Putin almost immediately whether to take the deal seriously and that after the meeting, he would keep European leaders like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the loop.
“If it’s a good deal, I’ll reveal it to EU leaders and NATO leaders and President Zelensky,” Trump said. “I might say, ‘A lot of luck, keep fighting’, or I might say we can make a deal.”

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he could tell Putin almost immediately whether to take the deal seriously. (Alex Brandon/AP)

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