Denmark welcomes US rethink on Greenland visit
Vance had said he would join his wife Usha on a trip tomorrow to Greenland, saying he would visit US Space Force members based there but also ‘check out what’s going on with the security’ of Greenland. — AFP pic
Wednesday, 26 Mar 2025 4:37 PM MYT
COPENHAGEN, March 26 — Denmark’s foreign minister today welcomed a US decision to alter a planned visit to Greenland that had sparked a diplomatic standoff between Copenhagen and the White House amid President’s Donald Trump’s interest in taking over the island.
Denmark’s prime minister had said yesterday that a planned visit by Usha Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance, to a popular dog-sled race in Greenland was part of an “unacceptable pressure” on the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
The White House yesterday announced that the delegation would instead be headed by JD Vance himself, but that it would only visit the US Space Base at Pituffik in northern Greenland and not the dog-sled race.
“I think it’s very positive that the Americans cancelled their visit to the Greenlandic society. Instead, they will visit their own base, Pituffik, and we have nothing against that,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told broadcaster DR. — Reuters
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kt comments:
Wankee white settlers eye Greenland, Panama (Canal), Canada, Gaza etc with lust, avarice and wickedness a la lebensraum. Australia should wake up and reconsider whether its Tai-Koh is really interested in democracy for Taiwan and kerbau-ish protection for Australia?
Donald Fuck never learnt a social lesson most children pick up very early in school or kindergarten.
ReplyDeleteYou need to keep friends and allies, and maintaining such relationships mean you have to be willing to pay some costs . And you don't', as far as possible, Eff- your friends.
Else you will regret it one day.
America needs friends and allies. In fact that is a key strength when facing Russia and China.
China has business associates, and supplicants and very few friends that trust China.
Wakakakaka…
Delete"very few friends that trust China"
These r friends that China doesn't need!. Yet they patiently clinched onto China for survival on competiting geopolitical fronts!