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(NewsNation) — Vice President JD Vance, his woman Usha and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz volition onshore successful Greenland Friday, kicking disconnected a arguable travel to the self-governing Danish territory.
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede said the U.S. delegation's sojourn was planned without "any invitations" oregon input from the territory.
What started disconnected arsenic a three-day taste sojourn is present a one-day stop. The little travel to Space Force’s Pituffik Space Base comes arsenic President Donald Trump continues to propulsion for the U.S. to annex the mineral-rich island.
Other officials headed to Greenland see Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and erstwhile Homeland Security Advisor Julia Nesheiwat, who is Waltz’s wife.
JD Vance has supported the thought of America owning Greenland, and is aligned with Trump's vow to "go arsenic acold arsenic we person to go" to get the land for nationalist information purposes.
"If determination are atomic weapons coming astatine the United States, they're not coming crossed the Atlantic oregon Pacific Ocean, they're coming implicit the poles. So having bluish monitoring, monitoring for our strategical defence is critical," Wright told Fox News.
Carla Sands, the erstwhile ambassador to Denmark and Greenland nether Trump’s archetypal term, told NewsNation that U.S. acquisition of Greenland is "necessary for the information of the United States” and its allies successful Europe.
This delegation has gotten pushback from officials successful Greenland, Denmark and the U.S.
Egede criticized the travel earlier JD Vance announced his participation, calling the U.S. delegation’s sojourn “very aggressive."
“The lone intent is to amusement a amusement of powerfulness to us, and the awesome is not to beryllium misunderstood,” Egede told the Greenlandic paper Sermitsiaq connected Sunday.
That’s a sentiment Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen echoed Tuesday. Frederiksen accused the U.S. of placing “unacceptable pressure” on some Greenland and Denmark.
“It’s depressing to maine to ticker the mode the Trump medication talks astir our allies, truthful I americium frustrated by it,” erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford, who served nether President Obama, said on “NewsNation Now.”
Even Russia has weighed in. The U.S. rival has said it volition enactment much subject unit successful the arctic to support its interests successful the region, President Vladimir Putin said astatine the International Arctic Forum successful Murmansk connected Thursday.
Denmark's TV 2 reported Wednesday that U.S. representatives couldn't find anyone connected the land funny successful welcoming 2nd woman Usha Vance for a visit. After allegedly knocking connected doors crossed the capital, the trip's itinerary was shortened.
The White House squad called the communicative "categorically false," according to New Republic reporting.
