Posted on 03/24/2025 6:25:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Greenland’s prime minister said a planned visit to the island by US officials, including second lady Usha Vance, is “highly aggressive,” plunging relations to a new low after President Donald Trump vowed to annex the autonomous Danish territory.
Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance, will travel to Greenland this week to watch the island’s national dogsled race and “celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity,” according to a statement from the White House. National security adviser Mike Waltz is also expected to visit the territory this week, according to a source familiar with the trip.
Greenland Prime Minister Mute B. Egede called the US delegation’s trip to the island “highly aggressive” in an interview with Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq on Sunday, and raised particular objection to Waltz’s visit.
What is the national security adviser doing in Greenland? The only purpose is to demonstrate power over us,” Egede said. “His mere presence in Greenland will no doubt fuel American belief in Trump’s mission — and the pressure will increase.”
Trump’s idea to annex Greenland has thrown an international spotlight on the territory, which holds vast stores of rare earth minerals critical for high-tech industries, and has raised questions about the island’s future security as the US, Russia and China vie for influence in the Arctic. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in the US taking the island by force or economic coercion, even as Denmark and Greenland have firmly rejected the idea.
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The White House presented Vance’s visit as a cultural one, and said the second lady “will travel to Greenland with her son and a United States delegation to visit historical sites, learn about Greenlandic heritage, and attend the Avannaata Qimussersu, Greenland’s national dogsled race.”
The administration is playing the “Overton Window” game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
If you want to pursue a policy outside the window the very first step is to get everybody talking about it—that gets it inside the window.
Once that happens then a serious policy discussion about strategy and tactics can begin.
Yeah, but they will aggressive learn and vigorously attend.
there are only 50,000 people in all of Greenland.
Just offer to give each and every one of them $500,000
That is only 25 Billion total. Done deal.
TDS is everywhere.
Now I am going to aggressively walk my dog😂
Yeah Usha Vance is so scary aggressive!
Prime Minister Mute B. Egede is holding out for a big payday.
Another word for it—extortion.
Welcome to the planet of the criminals.
WONDER HOW MUCH HES PAID BY THE DANISH AND HOW MUCH BULLSH## HES FEEDING THE POPULATION
Attending a dogsled race is highly aggressive?
Set up an American settlement there.
Idiots. This would be the best thing for Greenland’s people and their economy and security. What has Denmark done for them?
RE: Attending a dogsled race is highly aggressive?
With our National Security Adviser?
Lex Harvey used to work for the Toronto Star for over 4 years, and has only been working for CNN from June 2024. His “reporting” can only be termed liberal, slanted, and anti-Trump/Vance.
I’ve seen it written...recently...that a poll of Greenland’s citizens says they might be in favor of being part of the US. If that is,*in fact*,true then it seems that their PM might simply see DJT as a political rival and,thus,be in fear for his job.
Might take a little more than that. Make it a million after taxes plus something like Alaska and continued payments from future development and that would get it done. Basically all the Greenlanders would be like one big Tribe and get perpetual payments.
The “charm offensive” apparently met with some initial resistance. But by the steady and sure application of wheedling, supplication and flattery is certain to erode away this resistance to what, in the end, shall be of great mutual benefit.
Greenland is made bulletproof to the advances of China. The Russian Federation has a new flank they must watch. Air routes passing near the Arctic Sea provide a wider access to most points in the Northern hemisphere.
And Canada will be surrounded on three sides by US-controlled landing zones.
Exactly.
CNN via Yahoo worthless trash moving on
Worth a shot do it
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