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Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
Thu 27 Mar 2025 21.00 EDT
The US vice-president, JD Vance, and his wife Usha are due to touch down in Greenland on Friday in a drastically scaled down trip after the original plans for the unsolicited visit prompted an international diplomatic row.
The visit to Pituffik, a remote ice-locked US military base in northwestern Greenland, will be closely watched by leaders in Nuuk and Copenhagen, who have aired their opposition to the trip amid ongoing threats by Donald Trump to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.
Its safe to say we would rather not have him [Vance] in Greenland, a government source in Copenhagen said.
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Before the Vances arrival, Trump said the US will go as far as we have to go to gain control of the island which he claimed the US needs for national and international security ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/jd-vance-greenland-visit-diplomatic-row
Perhaps in Pituffik, he can get handful of frozen sled-dog pooh or a nice yellow snowcone
Sneederbunk
(17,212 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,604 posts)Get a frosty reception wherever he goes? He has the personality of a bent shitcan. And trump is finding out that every day more and more Americans who voted for him dont like bent shitcans.
surfered
(11,107 posts)Cha
(316,442 posts)VGNonly
(8,324 posts)"Vance you suck" in Greenlandic or Danish?
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)I don't know the literal translation...
Vance þú sýgur
Submariner
(13,234 posts)during approach to airspace that would probably light up the cockpit dashboard!
just tell them ...oops...just a training exercise.
mitch96
(15,598 posts)RainCaster
(13,367 posts)Immediately. Refuse all incoming air traffic, only outgoing.
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)But no high officials should meet with or greet them etc.
unc70
(6,492 posts)A few hundred airmen/spacemen, mostly US. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, not much to see, brutal weather.
AmericaUnderSiege
(777 posts)Or at least that's my sense of things.