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.
This is being called hybrid warfare in Denmark. Similar to what Russia did in Ukraine before the annexation of Crimea.
I hate that this is accurate
Stg Republicans have zero concept of how repulsive they are to other countries (as well as most of the US). No one invited these assholes, no one wants them, they just show up and everyone’s gotta be pretend they’re welcome. I can’t think too much about this it’s making me sick
I don’t think that they will feel welcomed in Greenland any time soon. I trust that their visit will be unpleasant. That said, saying that they are repulsive to most of the US, is not going to cut it. Having elected this administration, has its consequences, and you can’t just say “oh we hate him too”… This is not how democracy works. The Trump administration is the US for now, and to change this, you have to wait until the next election.
I didn’t say ‘we hate him too’ I said most of the US. You’re taking my 70%-ish number and acting like I said 100%. We ain’t talking about democracy here
For what it’s worth, you’re objectively correct, regardless of what anyone else says. The majority of the country didn’t vote for him, and yes, inb4 “not voting is voting!” The people who didn’t vote are making a civic choice, and that choice lead to a trump presidency. But it doesn’t mean those people wanted him, or like him. It means they were politically un/underinformed, or didn’t want to have to make a choice between fascism and slower fascism (I hated making that choice, voted for Kamala). we are a nation of 340 million people. 75 million voted for trump. That’s 22%.
There’s your number. 22% of the US wanted this guy. Anything else is speculation. The only thing we know is that 22% voted for him.
Give Americans a politician worth voting for, someone with a backbone who believes in the universal right to healthcare, childcare and all the other things industrialized countries have by this point, and who doesn’t believe a little genocide is okay, as a treat, and you’ll see a different fucking result.
In other words, to my dear European friends blaming every American for the act of 22% of us, if we had a politician to vote for who would even try to give us 1\10th of what you already have maybe more people would have gotten off their ass and voted. But our elections have a different fucking vibe. We’re not fighting to keep what we’ve got here, we’re fighting to get some level of human decency so that we won’t have to watch our parents work into their late 80s with 3 days of sick time per year, and then die sleeping on the sofa in our living rooms because God knows their can’t afford to keep their house in this economy.
Also I know some folks who avoid politics like the fucking plague, not for any “enlightened” above politics sorta way. No they avoid politics because their usually mom was a fucking psycho and would shove politics into EVERYTHING. Air conditioner broke? Must’ve been the liberals. Grocery store stopped stocking miracle whip? Must’ve been Obama. Cheese grater handle snapped? It’s the immigrants.
Frankly speaking I suspect this is a larger cohort of folks than many realize. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if up to 10 percent of the population avoided politics because of trauma.
This is how democracy works though. The USA has elected Trump and his administration so if your 70% is true, then the result should have been different.
For now, these are the consequences of the choices that the majority of the USA ellected
everyone’s gotta be pretend they’re welcome
Revoke their visa unless they surrender their phones.
Have no one on the government make meetings with them. Sorry, booked.
Have citizens follow them and see whom they DO meet with. It’ll end some careers in Greenland Politics.
They are well aware of how we feel about them. They just don’t care.
Everything the American government does at the moment is with full intent. its calculated and the sooner we stop thinking of them as stupid and incompetent the better.
they just show up and everyone’s gotta be pretend they’re welcome.
US here, do you? I mean I know your politicians might, but I figure the populace can do a good job showing how “welcome” they are… (seriously, if you somehow chuck them off the island without a boat I’ll be cheering for you.)
It’s super fucked up, is what it is. What is going through the heads of these people? Lead in the eyeliner?
Maybe don’t allow them to leave the air field/base. Idk.
I thought you meant keep them in the country, permanently. Hence my original comment. This is a viable idea.
Just drop them off somewhere near the center.
Sorry, there’s protests and we can’t protect you (especially if we turn our backs)?
Sorry, airport closed because there is ice on the runway!
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?
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”
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.
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
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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.
The presence of Usha Vance, whose family has relatively recent experience with colonialism, is particularly gross to me.
Why is
Waltzwith those two?Edit: early derp brain had me confusing waltzisis
You’re not thinking of Tim Walz are you? This is someone different.
Yeah i was. Thanks
They are covering it up as being tourists, because Greenland does not want them there. The US has had free access to build military bases there since 1952 though, so they can’t even forbid them access to their own bases. A new requirement that is being considered at this point is to require USA to be part of NATO to keep running the bases there
Being in NATO should be the bare minimum for requirements.
NATO membership and that they will enforce paragraph 5 if it is needed. This is what talks there are atm.
But i don’t know if it is even possible to require thism they have had free access to build military bases there ever since the cold war and did not even have to tell Greenland or Denmark what they were up to. Same rules still should apply so I don’t see why they now want ownership (maybe besides greed and vanity)
So they could have a whole invading army already in Greenland. Seems like a dumb deal to sign.
Its an interesting story and the deal was done in good faith. But there have been some crazy things going on there. During the cold war, USA used to have planes in the air, with atomic bombs, 24 hours a day, in order to be able to react fast to any attack.
One of them actually crashed and a lot of the help that came to the rescue were contaminated and died shortly after. Nobody knew that they were hydrogen bombs and there are talks that they were never recovered. If you have the time, look into it! Also a secret underground base to hide launch sites that never really worked because the tunnels in the ice, couldn’t hold, due to the movement of the ice.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/15/science/camp-century-secret-arctic-base-cold-war/index.html
I’ve been picturing that call of duty level with the white house lately. Back then I thought yeah this’ll never happen in America. And now with this fat orange demented child rapist back in power, I don’t know anymore. It’s not out of the question
Mike Waltz is the US National Security Advisor and former Republican Representative from Florida.
You’re probably thinking of Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota and former VP candidate.
That’s exactly what i was thinking. Thank you for the correction
I had the same brain fart and I couldn’t make sense of it. Took me a minute to realize the first name.
