Greenland

JD Vance explains why Trump is thinking about invading Greenland

The Guardian - Greenland’s prime minister, Múte B Egede, has called for the international community to step in after it was announced that Donald Trump’s national security adviser and the US second lady will visit the Arctic island, accusing Washington of “foreign interference”. Mike Waltz and Usha Vance are due to arrive in Greenland this week as part of a delegation that will also include the US energy secretary, Chris Wright.

Trump has pledged to make the autonomous territory – part of the kingdom of Denmark, which ruled Greenland as a colony until 1953 and continues to control its foreign and security policy – part of the US, “one way or the other” and has refused to rule out using military or economic force to do so.

A spokesperson for the Danish police said they had sent extra personnel and sniffer dogs to Greenland as they step up security measures before the visit. René Gyldensten said the extra officers, deployed on Sunday, were part of regular steps taken during visits by dignitaries but declined to specify the number of extra police flown in on a chartered aircraft. News reports put the figure at dozens.

Washington Post - “We are now at a level where it can in no way be characterized as a harmless visit from a politician’s wife,” Prime Minister Mute Egede said to Sermitsiaq, a news outlet in Greenland, according to a translation. “Because what is the security adviser doing in Greenland? The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power to us.”