JD Vance takes a fateful message to Danish lands

Green flash was formed, like a curtain of light that is drawn through the night sky, along with the impossible bright stars above Nuk late on Friday evening.

It seems that the appearance of amazing northern lights – a common wonder in these parts – represents a very big day in the Arctic, which brought Greenland’s ice hopes and challenges in the most severe.

It was a day when a foreign power was sent to gain an unintended delegation to the largest island in the world with an uncomfortable message.

On a short visit to a distant American military base in the far north of Greenland, US Vice President JD Vance has sometimes tried to reduce the declared goal of his president is to include independent Danish lands.

“We do not think that the military power will be necessary,” Vans said, and he may try to look reassuring.

But the comprehensive vice president’s message remained flagrant and frightening: the world, the climate, and the Arctic region changes rapidly, and Greenland needs to wake up the threats posed by China’s expansionist; Long -term Western security partnerships led to the management of their path; The only way that the island can protect itself, its values ​​and mineral wealth is to give up weak and Danish Danish and Danish pads and instead adopt the United States.

“We need to wake up from a 40 -year -old failed consensus that he said we could ignore the infringement of powerful countries while expanding their ambitions,” Fans told the American forces at the American Bitofic military base.

“We can not only bury our head in the sand – or, in Greenland, bury our head in snow He claims that the Chinese do not care about this very large earth mass. “

If you look at a map of the world that includes the Arctic in its center, instead of the equator, it is easy to see how Greenland suddenly turns from being easily disappointed with uninhabited lands and to a major strategic ground area. At the heart of what many analysts accept now as a conflict of the emerging power between China, the United States and Russia, to control the Arctic, its minerals and charging corridors.

But the speed and contempt in which the White House refused Trump, its traditional dependence on the Western allies – NATO in particular – left its partners confusing.

“Not justified,” was the wooden response to Danish Prime Minister Metty Friedrixen after hearing Vans attacking her government standing on its sovereign lands.

But 1500 km (930 miles) south of the Beitovic base, in the capital of Greenland, Nock, the American story is competing for an interest in a local event that is completely different on Friday.

“We will black”, a smiling crowd sang, at a ceremony to celebrate the formation of a new coalition government for Greenland.

The mood often felt a joyful and societal, as people imprisoned and gently swayed as a group that played inside the city’s culture home.

It was a strong reminder of the common values ​​that link the inhabitants of the small Innit in Greenland, and the overwhelming majority together – the need for consensus and cooperation in a natural climate often, the desire to protect and celebrate the culture of Innet and celebrate respect by strangers, whether it is familiar but in distant Denmark or closely close.

“There are many ways to say things. But I think the method (Trump) says it is not the way. It is like a threat,” said Lesbath Carlin Polsen, 43, a local artist attending the ceremony.

Her reaction seemed to pick up the broader mood here – a recent survey showed that only 6 % of the population supported the idea of ​​being part of the United States.

With its new government, with overwhelming public support, Greenland began a slow and very cautious step towards complete independence from Denmark.

It is a possible process that will take many years, which will include a long dialogue with Copenhagen and Washington.

After all, Greenlanders well understands that their economy should be more sophisticated if their exposure for independence is to put any realistic opportunity to succeed.

But they need to balance this development against realistic fears of exploitation by the strong external commercial forces.

This leads us to the basic confusion, in Greenland and abroad, about the Trump administration’s approach to their lands.

On his visit, Vans mentioned Greenland’s aspirations for independence, and ensured that America’s true intention was not a sudden implicit of the island, but it is something more patience and long.

“Our message is very simple, yes, the Greenland people will have a self -determination. We hope that they will choose partnership with the United States, because we are the only nation on the face of the earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security.”

If this is really the American stadium – Trump’s messages are still aggressive than Vans – Greenland can relax a little and take their time.

There are still great reserves of goodwill towards the United States here, and great interest in doing more business with American companies.

On the security front, the 74-year-old Denmark Treaty should take care of the United States by increasing its military presence in Greenland at any time-from new bases to the submarine ports-certainly Washington’s concerns about facing the Chinese threat, just as it did during the Cold War years.

What remains confusing is the impatience of Donald Trump – the same patience that he offered in an attempt to negotiate the war in Ukraine.

In short, Greenland’s possession, America can get everything it wants and their needs from this vast island without great difficulty. Instead, many people in Nuk feel that they are being intimidated.

It is deeply The reverse approach, which has already forced Washington to climb one humiliating – cancel a planned cultural tour by the wife of Vansha, Osha, to Nakk and another city in the face of the planned local protests.

Certainly, a slower, more respectable type, behind the scenes will be more logical.

But this is not for every politician’s taste.