Silver the chief of the US army base in Greenland: he had criticized JD Vance | EUROtoday

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The head of the US army base in Greenland, a Danish territory lined by the president of the United States Donald Trump, was fired for criticizing the Washington program for the Arctic island. Colonel Susannah Meyers, from July Commander of the Pituffik spatial base, was faraway from the place following the stories in accordance with which he would distance himself from the criticisms moved by the US vice -president JD Vance to Denmark and the management of the territory throughout his go to to the bottom two weeks in the past. The US Space Force has communicated that Colonel Shawn Lee took over the meyers. “The commanders are expected to join the highest standards of conduct, especially as regards the impartiality in carrying out their duties,” mentioned the US Space Force in a observe launched final night time. The declaration was not additional expanded, however the US web site Military.com mentioned that Meyers despatched an e-mail on March thirty first to all Pituffik’s workers “apparently aimed at creating units between the aviators and the guardians, as well as among the Canadians, the Danish and the Greenlanders who work there, after the Vance’s appearance”.

During his go to to the bottom on March 28, Vance had declared in a press convention: «Our message to Denmark may be very easy, you didn’t do a great job towards the individuals of Greenland. You have invested too little within the inhabitants of Greenland and too little within the safety structure of this unimaginable and fantastic continental mass ». In his e-mail, forwarded to Military.com, Meyers wrote: “I do not have the presumption of understanding current policy, but what I know is that the concerns of the US administration discussed by the vice-president Vance do not concern the spatial base of Pituffikik”. The Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell mentioned on X that “the actions aimed at undermining the chain of command or subverting the program of President Trump will not be tolerated by the Department of Defense”.