Danish prime minister to visit Greenland after criticism of JD Vance

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The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen will visit Greenland next week and meet the newly appointed island leader of the island of Jens-Frederik Nielsen after the US vice president JD Vance claimed that Denmark neglected autonomous territory.

On Saturday, Danes pushed against US criticism, saying that America neglected Greenland’s security, significantly reducing its military presence in the Arctic.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, replied A unique visit of the US Vice President To the American military base in Greenland on Friday, saying that Copenhagen was “open to criticism”, but “we underestimate the tone in which it is delivered – you are not talking to close allies.”

He added: “In 1945, the United States had 17 bases and military installations Greenland with thousands of soldiers. Today, only one American base is left. . . And something like 200 soldiers. We can do more, much more, as we have today. . . Let’s do it together. “

Donald Trump’s public desire for taking over Greenland from Denmark posted the future of the Arctic Island and its 57,000 people Geopolitical headlight light.

Vance, together with the US national security advisor, Mike Waltz and the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, visited the Pibatian space base and accused Denmark of not performing “good work by the inhabitants of Greenland.”

Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, but most of her population ultimately wants independence from Copenhagen.

Danes officials who presented a $ 2 billion defense package after admitting that they did not invested enough in the security of the island, initially adopted a cautious approach to Trump’s expansion claims. But last week they became more assertive.

Rasmussen said that Vance also admitted that the US did not invest enough in the Arctic. “The fact is that we all collect a peace dividend. We all acted on the basis of the assumption that the Arctic was and should be a low-voltage area. But this time is over. The status quo is not an option,” he said.

Trump argued that the United States lags behind Russia and China in such areas as icebreakers, like their two greatest geopolitical rivals, they are preparing to melting ice in the far north.

But Danish and Greenland officials were terrified by their rhetoric that “we must have” Greenland, refusing to exclude military forces.

On Friday, Vance said that he did not think that “military strength would ever be necessary”, partly because the Greenlanders would choose independence from Denmark, and then a closer partnership from the USA. The vice president added that there are threats from China and Russia to Greenland, but experts found that the only public threat comes from the USA.

Denmark sent soldiers to fight American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and her officials were terrified by criticism from the nearest security ally. But they also felt relief that Vance did not escalate matters. “I thought it would be worse,” said one of them.

Frederiksen said that Vance’s criticism was not a “honest way to refer to Denmark”, which she called “a good and strong ally” to the USA.

According to the broadly arranged defense agreement, the United States may establish military bases in Greenland since 1951, unless it affects the sovereignty of Denmark.

Greenland and Danish officials have said that in recent years they have proposed several times so that the US could increase their military trail, but America has reduced its presence.

Greenland presented a new, wide government coalition on Friday. Nielsen criticized Vance because of disrespect, announcing his uninvited visit, while government formation talks were still taking place. Many Danish ministers said that he would soon visit, now that a new government was created.