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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:53 PM Mar 2025

The shifting Greenland itinerary

March 25, 20256:30 PM ET
Deepa Shivaram

... Vance said in a video posted on social media that he wanted to "just check out what's going on with the security there."

"A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course, to threaten the people of Greenland, so we're going to check out how things are going there," Vance said.

The renewed attention on Greenland kicked off on Sunday. Usha Vance announced that she and one of her young sons would visit Greenland to see cultural and historical sites, and attend the national dogsled race — and the White House had said that national security adviser Mike Waltz would visit a U.S. military base on the island ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5340717/vance-greenland

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The shifting Greenland itinerary (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2025 OP
The United States has threatened Greenland and is continuing to do so. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #1
Greenland and Denmark are both fine without rump and the US... wcmagumba Mar 2025 #2
They're going to maroon Waltz on an iceberg, aren't they? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #3
JD, your remarks sound like US freeloading to me. N/t bronxiteforever Mar 2025 #4
Name one other than Russia and the US. sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #5
Who is meeting them at the plane? Who will escort them? IcyPeas Mar 2025 #6
They know people who live under a bridge. Baitball Blogger Mar 2025 #8
You can just imagine their Signal chat on that trip..... OnDoutside Mar 2025 #7

Solly Mack

(97,272 posts)
1. The United States has threatened Greenland and is continuing to do so.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:59 PM
Mar 2025

And if the US does try anything toward that aim, I hope the US loses "bigly".

muriel_volestrangler

(106,605 posts)
3. They're going to maroon Waltz on an iceberg, aren't they?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:05 PM
Mar 2025

One way to get rid of this week's most embarrassing regime member ...

IcyPeas

(25,804 posts)
6. Who is meeting them at the plane? Who will escort them?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:29 PM
Mar 2025

I assume someone has been assigned to drive them around.

I hope they only speak Greenlandish in front of them.

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