Denmark has not “executed a superb job” of making certain the safety of Greenland; this was the judgement handed down by United States Vice-President J.D. Vance throughout his 28 March go to to the US base at Pituffik. Donald Trump‘s operating mate additionally took the chance to announce his hope for the autonomous territory to come back below US safety. For his half, Trump declared he would do no matter it takes to get his palms on the coveted territory – and its valuable minerals.
Vance’s go to and remarks provoked an outcry on the boreal island. Just a few hours earlier than Vance’s arrival, a really broad and resolutely anti-American coalition was shaped within the Greenlandic parliament. The response of Greenland’s new Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, whose centre-leaning Democrats got here out on prime within the 11 March elections, was clear and direct: Greenlanders belong to no-one however themselves.
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