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On Mar 29, 2025

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HASWhen Vice-President JD Vance landed on Friday on the American army base of Pituffik, in northern Greenland, for an sudden go to that the New York Times describes as “passive-aggressive”, Donald Trump has reaffirmed from Washington that the United States will “obtain” the island in a technique or one other. “We will need to have Greenland. The query is to not know if we will do with out it. We can’t, “the American president told journalists present in the Oval office.

Although Trump has expressed his desire to obtain the Panama canal, Canada, Gaza and Greenland, it is this island of Antarctica that it seems the most determined to acquire, note our American colleagues who wonder: “It is maybe its strategic scenario or its willpower to create an” American sphere of influence “, a really nineteenth century imaginative and prescient in the way in which the good powers cope with one another.”

THE New York Times Thus refers to William McKinley, President of the United States from 1897 to 1901 who had managed to obtain control of the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico which Donald Trump is inspired. None of his successors later showed such a determination to extend the American borders … to Donald Trump.

The sensitive cord of Danish security

As insisting as it may be, the current American president has not (yet?) Announced his intention to initiate economic or military coercion to achieve his ends, but the visit of his vice-president and his wife USHA VANCE, as well as the national security advisor Michael Waltz and of the chris Wright energy secretary on Greenlandic soil this Friday reflects his determination.

On the spot, JD Vance did nothing to appease tensions between Washington and Copenhagen, accusing Denmark of not having managed to ensure the safety of Greenland in the face of the ambitions of Russia and China in the Arctic. The American vice-president said that the island would be much better if it was in the American fold.

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“We have a dispute with the Danish leaders, who’ve underinvested in Greenland and in its safety structure. It should completely change. The United States’s coverage goals to alter, “he said. “I believe you (the Greenlanders) could be a lot better in the event you place your self beneath the safety of the United States, moderately than that of Denmark,” he continued, before announcing a strengthening of the American military system on the island-a defense agreement signed in 1951 allows Americans to go to their military base when they wish, provided they warn the local and Danish authorities.

Saying to respect the “self-determination” of Greenland, JD Vance said he was convinced that the territory would end up cutting the bridges with Copenhagen to become a “companion” of the United States.

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