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Vice President Vance connected Friday slammed Denmark arsenic failing to prioritize Greenland’s security, escalating rhetoric betwixt Washington and Copenhagen amid President Trump’s claims to instrumentality implicit the island.
Vance made his remarks from the Pituffik Space Base successful northwestern Greenland, portion of a hotly watched travel that came aft a “heritage” circuit of the land led by 2nd woman Usha Vance was canceled amid protestation from officials successful Nuuk and Copenhagen.
“What Denmark's information umbrella has meant is, effectively, they've passed it each disconnected to brave Americans and anticipation that we would prime up the tab,” Vance said.
Greenland is an autonomous territory wrong the Kingdom of Denmark, but Copenhagen is liable for the island’s overseas argumentation and security.
In January, Denmark announced much than $2 cardinal successful defence spending successful the Arctic, a motion to expanding attraction connected Greenland’s importance. A NATO ally, Denmark announced earlier this twelvemonth it is connected way to walk 3 percent of its gross home merchandise connected defense, higher than the alliance’s benchmark of 2 percent.
Trump has not backed disconnected his intent to get the island. In remarks astatine the White House connected Friday, Trump said the U.S. has to person Greenland, for planetary security.
The president past released a video seeming to amusement U.S. information commitments to Greenland and substance of the video saying “America stands with Greenland.”
Still, Vance connected Friday said determination are nary contiguous plans to grow the U.S. subject beingness connected the island.
“There [are] wide objectives that we privation to execute that volition surely necessitate america investing much resources, investing successful further subject icebreakers, investing successful further naval ships that volition person a greater beingness successful Greenland,” helium said.
