Donald Trump has not hid his ambition for weeks to get his hands on Greenland. This week, an American delegation will also move to Danish autonomous territory. From this Thursday, March 27 to Saturday March 29, the wife of the US vice-president Usha Vance will be in Greenland. Her husband, JD Vance, decided to accompany her on Friday to visit an American military base.
“There was so much excitement around Usha’s visit to Greenland on Friday that I decided that I did not want to let her have fun on my own and I will therefore join her”he announced in a video broadcast on X this Tuesday, March 25.
Arctic security in question
The number 2 of the White House will visit the Spatial Pituffik space base. This branch of the American army dedicated to space “Use the missile starting detection, anti -missile defense and space surveillance missions”specifies the vice-president. JD Vance will particularly look at the “Subjects linked to the security of the Arctic”. “Many other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territory and its waters to threaten the United States”he said in the same sequence.
The second lady was to attend the Avannaata Qimussersu, the Greenland sled race national race, but her arrival was canceled. Usha Vance will join her husband for the visit of Pituffik.
“No meeting” planned
The arrival of an American delegation made the Greenlandic Prime Minister jump, Mute Egede. The latter denounced a “Foreign interference”. “It should be noted that our integrity and our democracy must be respected without any external interference”he wrote in a Facebook publication. The head of government warned that there would be “No meeting” With JD Vance and the other members of his delegation.
Danish Prime Minister puts Frederiksen, had already castigated the arrival of Usha Vance and believes that this visit “Cannot be considered independently of public declarations that have been made”. If the head of government has however been open to work with Washington, it recalled that it will have to be a “Cooperation based on the fundamental values of sovereignty and respect between countries and peoples”.
