JD Vance Takes Ominous Message To Danish Territory

A Green Shimmer, Like A Curtain Of Light Being Drawn Across The Night Sky, The Beside The Impossibly Bright Stars Above Nuuk Late on Friday Evening.

The Appearance Of The Spectacular Northern Lights – Seemed to Mark The End of A Hugale Significant Day in the Arctic, One That Brought IceBound’s Hopes and Challenges Into The Sharpest.

It was a day in which an accquisitive Foreign Power Had sent an uninvited delegation to the World’s Largest Island with Uncomortable Message.

On a Brief Visit to the US Military Base in the Far North of Greenland, US Vice-President JD Vance at Times to Soften His Boss’s Stated Annexing The Autonomous Danish Territory.

“We don’t think that it is Military Force Is Ever Going to Be Necessary,” Vance Said, People Realizing Sound to Attempting Sound.

But the Vice-President’s Overarching Message Remained Stark and Intimidating: The World, The Climate, and The Arctic Region Are Changing Fast, And Greenland Needs to Wake Up by Expansionist China; Long-standing Western Security Partnerships Have Run Their Course; The Only Way Can Protect Itself, Its Values ​​And ITS Mineral Weaken is Abandoning Weak and Turning Overlords And Turning To The Muscular and Protective Embrace Of Us.

“We Need to Wake Up A Failed, 40-Year Consensus That We Could Ignore The Powerful Counters AS they Expand Their Ambitions,” Vance Told US Troops at America’s Pituffik Military Base.

“We Can’t Just Bury Our Head in the Sand – Or, in Greenland, Bury Our Head In the Snow – And Pretend That The Chinese Are Not Interested in this Very Landmass Landmass. “

If you look at the world that is the North Pole at the North Pole, Rather Than The Equator, It Is Easy to See How to Easily Overlooked Smudge Of Uninhabited Territory and Into A Key Strategic Landmass. It is at The Heart of What many Analysts Now Accept As Emerging Power Struggle Between China, The US, and Russia, ITS minerals and ITS Shipping Lanes.

But The Speed ​​and Contempt with the Trump White House has rejected ITS Traditional Reliance on Western Allies – NATO IN PARTICULAR – Bewilded Left IT Partners Bewildered.

“Not Justifiable,” Was The Bristling Response Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen After Hearing Vance Attack Her Government AS Stood on IT Sovereign Territory.

But 1,500km (930 miles) South of the Pituffik Base, Nuuk, The American Story Vied Attention With A Very Different Local Event Friday.

“We will prevail,” A Smiling Crowd Sang, A Ceremony to Celebrate The Formation of the New Coalition Government for Greenland.

The Mood Felt Most Joyful And Community, With People Locking Arms and Swaying Gently A Band Played Inside The Town House of Culture.

It was a Powerful Reminder That Bold Greenland’s Tiny, and overwhelmingly Native Population Together – The Need for consensus and co-operation natural climate and Celebrate Inuit Culture and The Wish To Be Respected, Be Thain From Familiar But Distant Denmark or Marginally Closer America.

“There Ways to Say Things. But I think the way is not the way. It’s Like a Threat,” Said Lisbeth Karline Poulsen, 43, A Local Artist Attending The Ceremony.

Her Reaction Appeared to Capture The Broader Mood Here – A Recent Poll Showed Just 6% Of The Population Support Idea of ​​Being Part Of the US.

Under ITS New Government, and With Overwhelming Public Support, Greenland Is Beginning A Slow, Very Cautious Move From All Independence From Denmark.

It’s A Process That Willly Take Many Years, And Wow Will Involve Lengthy Dialogue with Both Copenhagen and Washington.

After all, Greenlanders Well Understand That Their Economy Needs to Be Far The More Developed IF Independence for Independence Is Any Realistic Chance Of Chance.

Buty Need to Balance That Development Against Realistic Fears Of Exploitation Powerful Outside Commercial Forces.

Which Brings US To The Fundamental Confusion, In Greenland and Beyond, About The Trump Administration’s Approach Towards Their Territory.

On His Visit, Vance Mentioned Greenland’s Independence, and Implied That America’s Real Intention Was Not A Sudden Annexation of the Island, But Something Far More Patient and Long-Term.

“Our Message is Simple, Yes, The People’s Greenland Are Self-Determination.

IF That GenuineLy The American Pitch – Trump’s Messaging Remains More Aggressive Than Vance’s – Then Greenlanders Can Surely Relax A Little And Take Their Time.

There are still Large Reserves of Goodwill towards The US here, and A Keen Interest In Administrous American Companies With More Business.

On The Security Front, A 74-year-old Treaty with the US to Increase The Us military Presence – From New Bases to Submarine Harbours – Should Surely Take Care of Washington’s Concerns About China, Just As It Did During The During Cold War Years.

What Remains Puzzling Is Donald Trump’s Impatience – The Same Impatience HE’s Displayed In Attempting to Negotiate End To The War in Ukraine.

Short Owning Greenland, America Could Get Everything From Desires And Needs From This Vast Island Without Much Difficulty. Instead, Many People in Nuuk Feel They’re Being Bullied.

It’s a deaply Counterproductive Approach, Washington Forced Washington Into One Humiliating Climbdown – Cancelling A Planned Cultural Tour by Vance’s Wife, Usha, to Nuuk and Another Town Planned Local Protests.

A slower, more respectful, Sort of Engagement Of Sort, Surely, Make More Sense.

But That’s Not to Every Politician’s Taste.