Military force won’t be necessary, Vance says on Greenland visit

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1. JD Vance has said the US has no plans for a military takeover of Greenland as he urged the Arctic island to seek independence from Denmark for its own safety and partner with Washington.

   The vice-president was joined by his wife, Usha, and Mike Waltz, the national security adviser, on a tour of a US military base on the semi-autonomous Danish territory during a trip that has provoked anger among locals.

   Speaking to troops at the US Space Force outpost at Pituffik on Friday afternoon, he criticised Denmark for “under-investing” in Greenland’s security.

   “Our message to Denmark is simple, you have not done a good job for the people of Greenland. This is why Trump’s policy is what it is,” Vance said, blaming America’s Nato ally for decades of decline.

   “You have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass … That simply must change. It is the policy of the United States that that will change.”

   Vance continued: “What we think is going to happen is that the Greenlanders are going to choose — through self-determination — to become independent of Denmark. And then we’re going to have conversations with the people of Greenland from there.

   “We do not think military force is ever going to be necessary.”

2. “For it’s own safety ” From who I wonder.

3. You need to seek independence for your own safety.

   Safety from what?

   Safety from what I would do to you if you don’t seek safety.

4. If military force is off the table, what was the benefit in bringing it up in the first place. Just throwing away credibility and good will for no reason, it drives me insane.

5. > JD Vance has said the US has no plans for a military takeover of Greenland as he urged the Arctic island to seek independence from Denmark for its own safety and partner with Washington.

   Washington is already partnered with its NATO ally, Denmark.

6. >The vice-president, travelling with his wife, Usha, said he believed Greenlanders would choose to become independent of Denmark

   They are already de-facto indepedent, Bowman. Doesnt mean they wanna become the 51st state (or just a territory).

7. I wonder how a guy as smart as Vance feels having to wake up and say some really stupid ass shit everyday.

8. If military force won’t be necessary then Denmark should make it a necessity for annexation so that it won’t happen. But even when the French offered soldiers Denmark refused. And they want to even buy more f-35s. After getting called a bad ally despite being among the first to join the invasion of Iraq and letting the US use them to spy on European neighbors, in addition to of course being threatened with military annexation.

   Stockholm syndrome the country.

9. Neither Russia nor China have *anywhere near* the capability to threaten the territorial integrity—or people—of Greenland. They just don’t. The notion is laughable.

   Furthermore, since Greenland is NATO territory, any Russian or Chinese incursions would result in WWIII. For what? It would take *years* to set up mining operations and those operations (plus any removal of resources via shipping) would be easy bombing targets. It’s just not viable.

   Let’s be clear. There is zero military risk to Greenland. None.

   The only threat to their peoples right now are from American oligarchs.

10. Of course it won’t be necessary and is not planned, otherwise it would have leaked already.

11. Maybe if they tone down their racist rhetoric, Greenlanders might express some desire to join the US. Denmark itself is a very racist place, I wouldn‘t want to be a part of it if I were a Greenlander.

12. Self patting after no one in Greenland wanted to host them

13. Denmark along with other EU countries better garrison Greenland now. You don’t want it to suffer a Crimean style takeover.

14. Putin said he had no plans to invade until he did it

15. Thank you JD Vance ^^^now ^^^sod ^^^off ^^^you ^^^tit

16. I like how they assume the rest of the world is as stupid as their maga base…

17. The fox is asking the chicken to seek independence from the chicken coop, so he can conversate with the chicken about its safety

18. What an odd thing to say.

19. “this incredible, beautiful landmass”

    Who even talks like that? 

    A guy who can’t order Donuts. That’s who.

20. Is this what the current US administration will look like? Trump says something stupid in public, comes back to his office, gets told by advisers that ‘we shouldn’t be doing this”, then assures everyone they won’t be doing this. Bro, it was a joke, chill /s

21. Imagine if Denmark leaders flew to California and encouraged the state to secede from The US.

22. Greenland should publicly declare that if the USA tries a military takeover then Greenlanders will fight to the last man/woman. So if the US wants it, they’ll have to genocide them before the world like the Native American massacres the US was shamefully built on.

    Let’s see who blinks when that’s the declared level of resistance against a NATO ally.

23. This should be a wake up call for countries to protect its geopolitical inerests. If Denmark cares so much about having Greenland they shouldnt have allowed them the right of self determination. Im saying this unrelated to the fact that US is not only abandoning but threatening its long-term US allies.

24. Wonder what would happen if china played a diplomatic visit?

25. This is normal behavior now for an American entourage? Going to territories of our allies and encouraging them to secede?

26. So…”America First”!?!?

    …come again??

27. Just more of Trump’s hostile negotiating style, act like a bully, lose all goodwill and then come back down to some reasonable deal. You might get your deal but the other side will just be forced into moving away from you.

    Also, all this talk is getting boring they might as well just do it. Only going to need like 2-3 brigades if not less.

28. It’s like a bunch of uneducated bro kids are running the American government…idiocracy is here.

    Denmark joined nato, what else do you expect them to do to protect Greenland from whom exactly? It’s just comically bizarre. You have a base there, add a bunch more soldiers and fighters if it’s going to make you feel better. And American companies are welcome to invest and mine etc anytime they want to begin that process they can pick up the phone. But annex ? It makes absolutely zero sense. Even in a purely expansionist mindset, annexing is going to cost you a LOT more money and resources and headache vs just add more bases if you want or do some mining if you want.

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