US putting ‘unacceptable’ pressure on Greenland with planned trip by Trump officials, Danish PM says – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says trip by Usha Vance, Mike Waltz and Chris Wright is ‘clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs or wants’Elsewhere, there is growing frustration in Denmark and Greenland over the growing US appetite to control the island.The latest escalation comes as Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president JD Vance set to attend the national dogsled race in Greenland later this week, with US national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright also visiting a US military base on the island.How are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security? If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because he doesn’t care about what the Europeans scream at us, he cares about putting the interest of American citizens first. Continue reading...

US putting ‘unacceptable’ pressure on Greenland with planned trip by Trump officials, Danish PM says – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says trip by Usha Vance, Mike Waltz and Chris Wright is ‘clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs or wants’

Elsewhere, there is growing frustration in Denmark and Greenland over the growing US appetite to control the island.

The latest escalation comes as Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president JD Vance set to attend the national dogsled race in Greenland later this week, with US national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright also visiting a US military base on the island.

How are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security?

If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because he doesn’t care about what the Europeans scream at us, he cares about putting the interest of American citizens first. Continue reading...