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Died of cringe
I thought it sheer perfection.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenlandThe American vice-president, JD Vance, visited an American base Greenland for three hours yesterday, along with his wife. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his wife also came along. Fresh from illegally using an unsafe social media platform to carry out an entirely unnecessary group chat in which they leaked sensitive data about an ongoing military attack to a reporter, Waltz and Vance perhaps hoped to change the subject by tagging along on a trip which was initially billed as Vance’s wife watching a dogsled race.
The overall context was Donald Trump’s persistent claim that America must take Greenland, which is an autonomous region of Denmark. The original plan had been that Usha Vance would visit Greenlanders, apparently on the logic that the Second Lady would be an effective animatrice of colonial subjection; but none of them wanted to see her, and Greenland’s businesses refused to serve as a backdrop to photo ops or even to serve the uninvited Americans. So instead the American couples all made a very quick visit to Pituffik Space Base. (Pete Hegseth, another group chatter, stayed home; but his wife was in the news as well, as an unorthodox participant in sensitive military discussions.)
At the base, in the far north of the island, the American visitors had pictures taken of themselves and ate lunch with servicemen and servicewomen. They treated the base as the backdrop to a press conference where they could say things they already thought; nothing was experienced, nothing was learned, nothing sensible was said. Vance, who never left the base, and has never before visited Greenland, was quite sure how Greenlanders should live. He made a political appeal to Greenlanders, none of whom was present, or anywhere near him. He claimed that Denmark was not protecting the security of Greenlanders in the Arctic, and that the United States would. Greenland should therefore join the United States.
When Vance says that Denmark is not protecting Greenland and the base, he is wishing away generations of cooperation, as well as the NATO alliance itself. Denmark was a founding member of NATO, and it is already American’s job to defend Denmark and Greenland, just as it is Denmark’s job (as with other members) to defend the United States.
Americans might chuckle at that idea, but such arrogance is unwarranted. We are the only ones ever to have invoked Article 5, the mutual defense obligation of the NATO treaty, after 9/11; and our European allies did respond. Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers. Do we remember them? Thank them?
Greenland, Denmark, and the United States have been enmeshed in complex and effective security arrangements, touching on the gravest scenarios, for the better part of a century. Arctic security, an issue discovered by Trump and Vance very recently, was a preoccuption for decades during and after the cold war. There are only a couple hundred Americans at Pituffik where once there were ten thousand; there is only that one US base on the island where once there were a dozen; but that is American policy, not Denmark’s fault.
We really do have a problem taking responsibility. The United States has fallen well behind its allies and its rivals in the Arctic, in part because members of Vance’s political party denied for decades the reality of global warming, which has made it hard for the U.S. Navy to persuade Congress of the need to commission icebreakers. The United States only has two functional arctic icebreakers; the Biden administration was intending to cooperate with Canada, which has some, and with Finland, which builds lots, in order to compete with Russia, which has the most. That common plan would have allowed the United States to surpass Russia in icebreaking capacity. This is one of countless examples of how cooperation with NATO allies benefits the United States. It is not clear what will happen with that arrangement now that Trump and Vance define Canada, like Denmark, as a rival or even as an enemy. Presumably it will break down, leaving Russia dominant.
The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous. The United States has nothing to gain from it, and much to lose. There is nothing that Americans cannot get from Denmark or Canada through alliance. The very existence of the base at Pituffik shows that. Within the atmosphere of friendship that has prevailed the last eighty years, all of the mineral resources of Canada and Greenland can be traded for on good terms, or for that matter explored by American companies. The only way to put all of this easy access in doubt was to follow the course that Musk-Trump have chosen: trade wars with Canada and Europe, and the threat of actual wars and annexations. Musk-Trump are creating the bloodily moronic situation in which the United States will have to fight wars to get the things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking.
The walk of shame
FAFO
What dip s y'all are
Greenland told you to go yourself.
Precisely!!!
You guys voted for a felon
Yep, and said felon made Biden quit and then said felon went after Harris and blasted her hair all over them walls.
..."I'm President...and their not."
https://www.lemonde.fr/international...3229_3210.htmlEmmanuel Macron in Nuuk to support Greenland and Copenhagen against the United States
https://financialpost.com/news/green...l-metal-permitGreenland awards Canadian miner permit for metal critical to defence industry
Greenland has given permission to a Canadian mining company to explore for molybdenum, a metal critical to the production of steel, amid growing demand from the defence industry.
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The Arctic island and its mineral riches have this year become hot geopolitical topics after Donald Trump’s persistent requests to take over the territory, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. At the same time, the European Union has identified Greenland as a strategic area of interest as the continent tries to become less dependent on the import of raw materials.
Greenland Resources Inc., which is based in Toronto, got a 30-year exploitation permit for molybdenum and magnesium at the Malmbjerg project in east Greenland, according to a statement late Thursday. The company can apply to extend the licence period to up to 50 years.
The miner said Malmbjerg has the potential to supply all the EU’s demand for molybdenum for defence purposes for decades to come, even as military budgets expand. The Canadian company has signed offtake deals with European steelmakers. Primary molybdenum is currently only produced in China, which has 87 per cent of the market, and the United States, which has the remaining 13 per cent, the company said.
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https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1992340276208398538
again
no rizz
we already have an air base in Greenland
SPACE base.
Doug Burgum's cancellation of US wind leases is a slap against Denmark, and recognized as such
https://www.berlingske.dk/business/d...ansk-udmeldingOn Monday, an American announcement of a contract pause sent one Danish stock in particular to the floor.
Ørsted shares fell by 12.7 percent at the close of trading on Monday, while Vestas shares fell by 2.7 percent.
This comes after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that leases for five major offshore wind farms will be paused immediately.
This includes the Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind parks, which Danish Ørsted is constructing off the east coast of the United States.
The lease for Empire Wind, which is being built by Norwegian Equinor, is also put on hold. Danish Vestas will supply wind turbines to Empire Wind.
According to Jacob Pedersen, Head of Equity Research at AL Sydbank, the dip looks like something that could be very expensive for Ørsted.
- Ever since day one, Trump has tried to block the offshore wind farms. And now he comes - two weeks after he had a decree overturned in court - with an apparently new construction halt, he says to MarketWire.
The leases are paused due to national security, writes the Minister of the Interior, Doug Burgum, on the social media site X.
"Due to national security concerns identified by the War Department, the Department of the Interior is pausing leases for five expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms," he wrote.
The Pentagon has expressed concern that the movement of wind turbine blades and reflective towers is causing radar interference.
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