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struggle4progress

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Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:53 PM Mar 2025

The shifting Greenland itinerary [View all]

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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