Washington, Nov. 10 -- United States Vice President JD Vance has mounted a fierce defence of US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, dismissing impeachment proceedings against the Pentagon chief as an "absurd" and "ridiculous show" driven by political resentment over military reforms rather than any constitutional wrongdoing.

Pushing back against the effort to unseat the Secretary of War, Vance asserted that lawmakers were using impeachment as an easy substitute for actual policymaking, arguing that the backlash against Hegseth stems from his decision to challenge entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy and shift military focus away from Europe and Ukraine.

"Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obvi...