Greenland’s visit, Verse finds the weather and cold reception

President Trump was less than accurate in his insistence that the United States would “get” Greenland in one way or another, repeating the assertion on Friday that the United States could not “live without it.”

By the time when these words were pronounced in the Oval Office, the highest American political exploratory force has already landed on vast lands to inspect real estate prospects. But they were confined to the fence of a US -free American air base, the only demonstrators were unable to appear.

Under the leadership of Vice President JD Vance, American visitors have quickly discovered what previous administrations have learned to the 1960s: Meteorological conditions prevent politics. When Mr. Vans landed in the sun in the middle of the day, 750 miles north of the Arctic circle, it was minus 3 degrees abroad.

Mr. Vans used a slightly vulgar and dual conclusion to describe the temperature, as he was wearing jeans and cold, but there was no hat or gloves. “No one tells me,” he told the forces at the Pitufik Space base when he entered the chaos hall for lunch. The laughter of the Awliya from the United States to space, who runs what was known one day after World War II as Thial Air Force Base, laughed.

But despite all the humor, the journey at the same time was a task of reconnaissance and a negative recall of the design of Mr. Trump to fulfill his regional ambitions, regardless of obstacles. As if he was leading this point to the house, Mr. Trump told the correspondents at the Oval Office on Friday: “We must have Greenland. It is not an issue” Do you think we can do without it. “We cannot.”

In fact, among the four lands in which Mr. Trump has discussed the acquisition of – Greenland, Panama channel, Canada and Gaza – Greenland seems more designed to get it. Perhaps this is the vast boredom of the region, much larger than Mexico. Perhaps its strategic location, or its determination to have an “field of influence”, is a view in the nineteenth century on how the great powers deal with each other.

However, one of the puzzles on the Vans’s tour is to what extent Mr. Trump wants to go to achieve his goal. This was the question since early January, when Mr. Trump was waiting for his inauguration, was He was asked if he would exclude economic or military coercion to reach its way. He said, “I will not adhere to that.” “You may have to do something.”

Not a few days ago William McKinleyThose who participated in the Spanish -American war in the late nineteenth century and ended up in US control of the Philippines, Game and Puerto Rico threatened the American president starkly using force to expand the regional borders in the country. On Friday, the visit appears to be designed to clarify this, without repeating the threat.

Mr. Vans is the first vice president sitting to visit a land that the Americans absolved of more than a century and a half. The fact that he was accompanied by the besieged national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and the Minister of Energy, Chris Wright, clearly designed to emphasize the strategic logical basis that Mr. Trump as a justification for his regional ambitions.

Before descending, Greenland’s leader suggested that he look at the presence of Mr. Walz, in particular, as a presentation of the intention of Mr. Trump Adwani.

“What does the National Security Adviser in Greenland do?” MúTE Bourup EgeDE, Prime Minister of 38 -year -old Greenland, The local newspaper was told Sremitsiaq on Sunday. “The only purpose is to show strength on us.”

Mr. Egeed and other officials in Greenland explained that the Americans were not welcome on a visit. The White House had to cancel a good tour by Osha Vice, the wife of the Vice President, who was planning to attend the rampant rampant and conversations with the ordinary Greenland. When it became clear that the roads surrounding Nuk, the capital, will lined up with the demonstrators, the visit was transferred to the space force base, as the distance from any population center and high walls confirmed that there will be no visible opposition.

Mr. Trump is not wrong when he claims that there are strategic advantages to get the region. William Seyard, Foreign Minister, during the era of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, was negotiating to buy the region for more than $ 5 million in 1868 – with Iceland’s throwing – after he acquired Alaska. But the deal never succeeded. Harry Truman wanted the region after World War II, with the realization that failure to control it would give a advantage to the Soviets, and to make the United States more vulnerable to Soviet submarines.

Greenland today is a site to compete with the sea surface with China and Russia to reach the Arctic, a region of largely increasingly military and commercial importance because the global warming phenomenon has made the polar roads that cross easier. Mr. Trump has explained that he is interested in the unarpsed mineral reserves in Greenland and the rare land, as it is in Ukraine, Russia and Canada.

“If you look at the world, you can see why we prefer that the Russians and the Chinese do not control it,” said Doug Bando, a older colleague at the Kato Tahrir Institute in Washington. “But we do not need to have it to protect it and prevent them from controlling.”

“Greenland’s resources, but in today’s world, you can buy resources,” said Mr. Trump. By expanding the American presence, it can defend the increasing Chinese or Russian influence without controlling the land.

But Mr. Trump looks at the world through the eyes of a real estate developer, and he is clearly proud of regional control. In his opening speech, he talked about “clear fate” and praised Mr. McKinley. He made her a picture of James K. Paul on the wall of the Oval Office, along with a selection of other former presidents; The president who supervised a lot of American expansion on the West Coast was.

The fans of Mr. Vans were American forces, not Greenland, as soon as his wife’s journey turned into a deputy mission. But he was talking clearly with a larger audience when, before returning to his plane and returning to the warmer atmosphere in Washington, he did that the United States would be a much better host than Greenland than Denmark for several years.

“Let’s be honest,” he said. “This rule, the surrounding area, is less secure than it was 30 and 40 years ago, because some of our allies have not been accompanied because China and Russia have been interested in an increase and greater in Greenland, at this rule, in the activities of the brave Americans here.”

He accused that Denmark, and many Europe, did not “keep pace with military spending, and did not keep pace with Denmark in devoting the necessary resources to preserve this rule, to preserve our forces, and in my opinion, to preserve the people of Greenland in safe from many aggressive inconsistencies from Russia, and from other nations.”

It was a great general criticism of NATO ally, but it is more moderate than Mr. Vance told his national security colleagues About European partners in the sign chat It became this year earlier in the week.

“Our message to Denmark is very simple, you have not done a good job by the Greenland people,” said Mr. Vance, except Greenland to announce independence from Denmark. “I had decreased in the people of Greenland and I had passed in the security architecture of this amazing beautiful land, full of incredible people.”

In an exchange with the correspondents, Mr. Vance seemed to admit that the motivation to obtain the region has a great relationship with Mr. Trump, such as the threat of national security. He said at some point: “We cannot ignore this place.” “We cannot ignore the president’s desires. But most importantly, we cannot ignore what I said earlier, which is the Russian and Chinese infringement in Greenland.”

“When the president says we must be Greenland, he says this island is not safe,” he said. “Many people are interested in it. Many people play.” But he was keen to say that the decision regarding who participated with him was Greenland. (Mr. Trump himself did not put it in such a voluntary aspect.)

Immediately before leaving, Mr. Vance was asked whether the military plans were formulated to take Greenland if they refuse to become an American reserve.

He said: “We do not believe that military power will be necessary at all. We believe that the people of Greenland are rational and good, and we believe that we will be able to cut the deal, Donald Trump, to ensure the security of this region, but also the United States of America.”