‘You haven’t executed a superb job by the folks of Greenland,’ Vance tells Denmark
Vance continues saying that “the story of Greenland over the previous 20 years in the case of safety is that we’ve underneath invested within the infrastructure.”
He says when he first made related feedback “there was plenty of criticism from Denmark” for what he says was “saying the plain, which is that Denmark has not executed a superb job at maintaining Greenland protected.”
He dismisses the argument that many Danes misplaced their lives within the “conflict on terror” combating alongside the US, saying that whereas he “honours the sacrifice of our Danish associates,” he needs to deal with the long run.
He says:
“Recognising that there are vital safety partnerships prior to now doesn’t imply that we are able to’t have disagreements with allies within the current about the best way to protect our shared safety for the long run, and that’s what that is about.
There is no such thing as a quantity of bullying, no quantity of obfuscating, no quantity of complicated the problem.
Our message to Denmark could be very easy: you haven’t executed a superb job by the folks of Greenland.
You could have underneath invested within the folks of Greenland, and you’ve got underneath invested within the safety structure of this unimaginable, stunning landmass stuffed with unimaginable folks.
That has to vary, and since it hasn’t modified, for this reason President Trump’s coverage in Greenland is what it’s.”
Key occasions
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‘We’re done being piggy bank of entire world,’ Vance says on tariffs and security
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Denmark ‘passed it all off to brave Americans and hope we would pick up tab,’ Vance says
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‘Our argument is with leadership of Denmark,’ Vance says
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‘You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,’ Vance tells Denmark
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Vance directly attacks Denmark for ‘not keeping pace’ with resources, keeping Greenland safe
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Vance talks about importance of Greenland base
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JD Vance delivers his speech in Greenland
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US needs control over Greenland and ‘can’t do without it,’ Trump says
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Vance meets US soldiers at Pituffik base in Greenland – video
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Military briefing gets under way
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Vance says he will talk about US ‘interest in Greenland’
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JD Vance lands in Greenland
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Danish leaders ‘spent decades mistreating the Greenlandic people, treating them like second-class citizens,’ senior White House source tells Fox
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Vance says ‘looking forward’ to Greenland visit as he shares post blaming Denmark for ‘ugly, dishonest spat’ over plans
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So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start – comment
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Responding to US pressure, ensuring equality in relations with Denmark top tasks for new government, former PM and new finance minister says
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New Greenlandic PM repeats criticism of Vance’s visit as ‘not showing respect to ally’
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Danish PM congratulates new Greenlandic government
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New Greenlandic government formed, eyes discussion on future relationship with Denmark
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Greenland parties sign coalition agreement to form new government – video
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JD Vance expected to speak at Pituffik Space Base this afternoon – media reports
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Connection to Pituffik re-restablished, Tussas tells Guardian
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Lines down in Putiffik, Greenlandic telecoms company says
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US puts European alliances at risk by threatening to annex Greenland, senior Danish lawmaker says
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Four Greenlandic parties set to sign coalition agreement today
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‘Welcome to the top of the world’ – location
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JD Vance to face frosty reception in Greenland – analysis
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Morning opening: You’re (not) welcome here
Briefly turning to Russia, Vance says the US feels “superb about the place issues are” in negotiations as he says some points are to do with “mistranslations and a few of them should not completely clear what’s even being requested for.”
“ I believe that we’ve made an unimaginable quantity of progress,” he says.
‘We’re executed being piggy financial institution of complete world,’ Vance says on tariffs and safety
Vance then will get requested about tariffs, and particularly speaks about Canada saying that “as president Trump usually says, they simply don’t have the playing cards.”
“There is no such thing as a manner that Canada can win a commerce conflict with the USA,” he asserts.
He then says Trump ran on the ticket of “we’re executed being the piggy financial institution of the whole world for 40 years in the identical manner that our European associates, I believe, have uncared for worldwide safety for 40 years,” and that drives Trump’s agenda.
After a number of questions in regards to the US strike in opposition to Houthis and the “Signalgate,” Vance is again speaking about Greenland, as he will get requested if there have been any “particular threats coming from China and Russia” he heard about right this moment.
He says “that the Chinese language are very, very on this island,” and provides “we’ve seen a number of the financial pressures that they’ve tried to position on Greenland.”
“For world safety, what now we have to recognise is that if the Chinese language and the Russians are going to pursue their nationwide curiosity, we want a president who’s going to pursue the American nationwide curiosity, and meaning guaranteeing that Greenland is protected,” he says.
Denmark ‘handed all of it off to courageous Individuals and hope we’d decide up tab,’ Vance says
Requested in regards to the president’s coverage to amass Greenland, Vance as soon as once more assaults Denmark, as he says Trump was clear that “we respect the self-determination of the folks of Greenland.”
However he says he’s prepared to make an argument to them that they’d be “rather a lot higher having coming underneath the US safety umbrella than you’ve been underneath Denmark safety umbrella.”
“As a result of what Denmark’s safety umbrella has meant is, successfully, they’ve handed all of it off to courageous Individuals and hope that we’d decide up a tab.”
Turning to Greenlanders once more, he says each president Trump and himself “hope that they select to accomplice with the USA, as a result of we’re the one nation on earth that can respect their sovereignty and respect their safety, as a result of their safety could be very a lot our safety.”
In Q&A, Vance notes that securing Greenland will “require investing extra assets,” together with in navy icebreakers and naval ships with better presence in Greenland.
He then talks in regards to the dangers and risks posed by China and Russia particularly.
“We have to get up from a failed 40 12 months consensus that stated that we might ignore the encroachment of highly effective international locations as they broaden to their ambitions.
We will’t simply bury our head within the sand or in Greenland, bury our head within the snow and fake that the Chinese language should not on this very massive land mass.
We all know that they’re.”
He says the US will “meet that problem” by placing in additional of its assets.
‘Our argument is with management of Denmark,’ Vance says
Turning to Greenlanders, Vance says how a lot he heard in regards to the respect of the US navy for Greenlanders, and stresses the US “imagine within the self-determination of this inhabitants, of the folks of Greenland.”
“Our argument could be very easy. It isn’t with the folks of Greenland, who I believe are unimaginable and have an unimaginable alternative right here.
Our argument actually is with the management of Denmark, which is underneath invested in Greenland and underneath invested in its safety structure that merely should change.”
‘You haven’t executed a superb job by the folks of Greenland,’ Vance tells Denmark
Vance continues saying that “the story of Greenland over the previous 20 years in the case of safety is that we’ve underneath invested within the infrastructure.”
He says when he first made related feedback “there was plenty of criticism from Denmark” for what he says was “saying the plain, which is that Denmark has not executed a superb job at maintaining Greenland protected.”
He dismisses the argument that many Danes misplaced their lives within the “conflict on terror” combating alongside the US, saying that whereas he “honours the sacrifice of our Danish associates,” he needs to deal with the long run.
He says:
“Recognising that there are vital safety partnerships prior to now doesn’t imply that we are able to’t have disagreements with allies within the current about the best way to protect our shared safety for the long run, and that’s what that is about.
There is no such thing as a quantity of bullying, no quantity of obfuscating, no quantity of complicated the problem.
Our message to Denmark could be very easy: you haven’t executed a superb job by the folks of Greenland.
You could have underneath invested within the folks of Greenland, and you’ve got underneath invested within the safety structure of this unimaginable, stunning landmass stuffed with unimaginable folks.
That has to vary, and since it hasn’t modified, for this reason President Trump’s coverage in Greenland is what it’s.”
Vance immediately assaults Denmark for ‘not maintaining tempo’ with assets, maintaining Greenland protected
JD Vance then turns immediately in opposition to Denmark, saying he wished to “be trustworthy what failed over the past 20 years to do in some circumstances,” saying the world is much less vital, as a result of “allies haven’t stored up as China and Russia have taken better and better curiosity in Greenland.”
“We all know that too usually our allies in Europe haven’t stored tempo. They haven’t stored tempo with navy spending.
And Denmark has not stored tempo in devoting the assets essential to hold this base, to maintain our troops, and in my opinion, to maintain the folks of Greenland protected from plenty of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and from different nations.”
Vance talks about significance of Greenland base
Vance begins by speaking in regards to the significance of Greenland and this base, as he says:
If, God forbid, to my fellow Individuals, if a missile was fired from an enemy nation or an enemy submarine into the USA, it’s the folks right here earlier than us, who would give discover to our courageous women and men additional south, in the USA to let folks know what was coming, and God prepared to attempt to shoot it down and put together for it.
He says Russia and China and different nations “are taking a unprecedented curiosity in Artic passageways,” and the US must “lead within the Arctic, as a result of we all know that if America doesn’t, different nations will fill the hole”.
Vance first invitations a number of the officers to talk alongside him.
US power secretary Chris Wright speaks about “what power can do” as he talks in regards to the challenges of operating a base “in a troublesome Arctic setting” like this.
Senator Mike Lee pays tribute to US personnel deployed to Greenland with out their households, saying “what you do right here makes us safer.”
Nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz follows the swimsuit, thanking US personnel for “persevering with a convention of the US navy’s presence” right here because the second world conflict.
He provides president Trump is “completely severe” in regards to the Arctic, delivery lanes, power, fisheries and the position performed by the Pituffik base.
And we return to Vance.
JD Vance is now talking, as he thanks “our guardians, our airmen, and everybody else for the nice and cozy reception in a really, very chilly place”.
JD Vance delivers his speech in Greenland
US vice-president JD Vance is about to begin his speech to Danish leaders watching it anxiously from Copenhagen the members of the US navy personnel stationed in Greenland.
You’ll be able to watch it beneath, and I’ll carry you all the important thing strains right here.
US wants management over Greenland and ‘cannot do with out it,’ Trump says
US president Donald Trump has simply repeated the US wanted management over Greenland for “world peace,” including he hoped Denmark and the EU would perceive it support “in the event that they don’t, we’re going to have to clarify it to them”.
“Do you assume we are able to do with out it? We will’t,” he stated.
“We want Greenland. Very importantly, for worldwide safety, now we have to have Greenland.
In the event you take a look at Greenland proper now, when you take a look at the waterways, you’ve Chinese language and Russian ships far and wide, and we’re not going to have the ability to do this.
We’re not counting on Denmark or anyone else to care for that state of affairs.
And we’re not speaking about peace for the USA. We’re speaking about world peace. We’re speaking about worldwide safety.”
He stated that “modern-day weaponry makes Greenland” extra vital than 100 years in the past, and likewise with new “water roadways” opening up.
“Greenland’s essential for the peace of the world, not us the peace of the whole world, and I believe, Denmark, understands it, I believe the European Union, understands it.
And in the event that they don’t, we’re going to have to clarify it to them.”
Trump spoke on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony for the US Legal professional for New Jersey – simply minutes earlier than his vice-president JD Vance is because of communicate from Greenland.
The vice-president is again out, posing for footage in entrance of a large signal saying “Pituffik House Base.”
We expect his speech throughout the subsequent half hour (+/-).
Vance meets US troopers at Pituffik base in Greenland – video
Army briefing will get underneath manner
The US delegation has now moved on to get a briefing on the station’s actions.
Vance begins the assembly by acknowledging the bottom commander Col. Susan Meyers for doing the Polar Bear Plunge after recognizing a certificates in her workplace.
“OK, man, you guys are powerful,” he says.
After which reporters are out of the room as their correct assembly will get underneath manner.
Vance says he’ll discuss US ‘curiosity in Greenland’
Going into his lunch with troopers, Vance provides his first impressions on Greenland by saying “it’s chilly as shit right here.”
(To be honest, it’s fairly chilly: -19 Celsius, -2 Fahrenheit.)
However he says it was “a very stunning flight,” “over some fairly cool spots,” as he notes that he’s the primary vice-president to ever go to Greenland as he thanks troopers for his or her service.
He says that with Nationwide Safety Adviser Mike Waltz they’ll “discuss to the command and a number of the guardians about what precisely the bottom does and all of the vital methods to contribute to nationwide safety,” and get a briefing on what the bottom does.
And in a nightmare state of affairs for Danish officers watching this from Copenhagen, he provides:
“After which we’re gonna discuss nearly, as you’ve heard, now we have some curiosity in Greenland from the Trump administration, so we’re gonna discuss slightly bit about that with our associates within the media.”
He then goes on:
“The Trump administration, the President is admittedly fascinated with Arctic safety. As you all know, it’s a giant challenge, and it’s solely gonna get greater over the approaching many years.”
After getting a proper welcome from navy representatives, the Vances get right into a automobile and get pushed deeper into the bottom.
As a part of the go to, they’ll obtain two briefings, have lunch with members of the navy, and ship a speech.
That final – however in all probability most notable for us – component is anticipated round 5.45pm GMT (6.45pm CET).
JD Vance lands in Greenland
Aaand… right here they’re!
