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Summary
Greenland’s prime minister, Múte B Egede, condemned the planned visit by Usha Vance, Mike Waltz, and US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, calling it “foreign interference” and urging international support against American pressure.
The visit, seen as a charm offensive amid ongoing coalition talks, sparked local outrage, with Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of Greenland’s Democrats, criticizing the US for disrespecting Greenland’s sovereignty.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasized cooperation with the US based on respect for sovereignty.
Extra Danish police have been deployed to Greenland ahead of the visit.
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This is being called hybrid warfare in Denmark. Similar to what Russia did in Ukraine before the annexation of Crimea.
It’s super fucked up, is what it is. What is going through the heads of these people? Lead in the eyeliner?
Deem them all persona-non-grata until they’ve backed down completely. Same for Canada, Panama, Germany and any other nation in the crosshairs of the US, whether for annexation or political tampering.
Strong worded letters won’t do anything with these sleezebags. Only actions. Otherwise they’ll always go up to you and grab your lollipop, because they know all you’ll do is complain without taking action. And words alone don’t hurt sociopaths who don’t care about feelings.
To them it’s literally ‘as easy as taking candy from a child’, because they know the child won’t defend itself beyond crying - and that’s what they want and expect. God forbid you actually defend yourselves, they’ll be offended and take to social media to condemn you.
The USA has had free access to build military bases on Greenland since the early 50s without even telling Denmark. This is the issue at the moment, as Denmark or Greenland, can’t forbid them from traveling to their own bases
Article 5, paragraph 3, guaranteed the US and its troops unrestricted freedom of operation between these bases, on land, air, and sea, throughout the entire national territory. Article 6 obliged the US “to show due respect for all regulations and customs affecting the population and the administration of Greenland”
That’s sad to hear. Well, alternatively, when conditions like these get in the way malicious compliance tends to be the answer. Let them go, but they shouldn’t be surprised that the people don’t welcome them and make them feel as unwanted as possible.
All this while we (allies) start paving the long, bureocratic and legal way to defend ourselves, by rethinking and adjusting these same accords and treaties that prove themselves to be liabilities in these circumstances. They’re there to protect stability and balance, after all, not to excuse bullies wanting to impose themselves on other nations.
Agreed
Trump is giving the rest of the world the right cards to strengthen their future ties to USA but also to close any backdoors that no one would have imagined when the standing agreements were made
The United States recently violated article 6 then, given that they don’t seem to respect regulations and customs affecting the administration of Greenland.
I hope that this can be a point to make. Also talks are to require USA to be part of NATO in order to keep their presence there. Greenland is a very powerful hand for NATO to play against USA because it is basically one of two backdoors of USA, and the shortest distance for the Russians to access it. Alaska is the other one.
Except America seems to have violated their part of the agreement. So why should they still uphold it. Every country should get American bases out of their country.
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Oh, they’re coming for a visit again?
Hmm…
How about everyone starts throwing eggs at them in Greenland. That would be diabolical. :D
Hey, chance to wipe your ass with some free MAGA hats and save on toilet paper.
Why don’t they just tell them no?
Deny them entry. WTF, Greenland?
The presence of Usha Vance, whose family has relatively recent experience with colonialism, is particularly gross to me.
As long as they have no official meetings with official representatives of Greenland, this actually counts as a private trip, and they have to pay for it. That’s why they were desperate to meet officials.
