JD Vance in Greenland: 'Ditch Denmark, Join America' Slams Europe’s ‘Failure’ to Protect the Island

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JD Vance in Greenland: 'Ditch Denmark, Join America' Slams Europe’s ‘Failure’ to Protect the Island  US Vice-President JD Vance in Greenland has sparked controversy during his visit to Greenland, urging its people to break ties with Denmark and align with the US. Criticizing Europe’s lack of investment in the Arctic island, Vance claimed that Denmark has failed to protect Greenland from alleged threats by China and Russia. Will Greenland move towards independence, or is this just another bold geopolitical move? Watch now for the full breakdown!    #JDVance #Greenland #Denmark #Trump #USPolitics #Geopolitics #China #Russia #GreenlandIndependence #BreakingNews #Arctic #USA #Europe #GlobalAffairs #Diplomacy #WorldNews  Also Read  Greenland Votes Today: Independence Debate Takes Centrestage Amid Trump's Piqued Interest :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/greenland-votes-today-independence-debate-takes-centrestage-amid-trumps-piqued-interest-4092093.html?ref=DMDesc  Marco Rubio Highlights Trump's Genuine Interest in Greenland and Panama Canal Due to China Threats :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/rubio-trump-greenland-panama-canal-china-concerns-011-4058145.html?ref=DMDesc  Trump Dials Danish PM Over Greenland Acquisition; 'Fiery' Call Sparks Diplomatic Tensions Between US, Denmark :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/trump-dials-danish-pm-over-greenland-acquisition-fiery-call-sparks-diplomatic-tensions-between-us-4053351.html?ref=DMDesc    ~PR.274~HT.318~ED.102~GR.121~

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00:00Hey guys, how we doing? Please, at ease. At ease. Good lord. Sit down and eat. Sit down and eat.

00:04Don't let the vice president stop you guys from getting your chow here. How we doing?

00:09It's cold as shit here. Nobody told me.

00:13President Trump, as he says all the time and as a lot of people recognize,

00:17is a president of peace. We want to have good relationships with everybody. That includes even,

00:22to the extent possible, the Chinese and the Russians. But part of having good relations

00:27is showing your strength when you have to. What we think is going to happen

00:31is that the Greenlanders are going to choose, through self-determination,

00:35to become independent of Denmark. And then we're going to have conversations

00:39with the people of Greenland from there.

01:27Hey everybody, at ease please. Thank you all. Good to see everybody. Let's have a seat and

01:51have a briefing and learn exactly what you do here, Colonel. I will say that the Colonel was

01:57kind enough to lend me her office for a few minutes so I could get my bearings.

02:06So it turns out that Colonel Myers here did the polar bear plunge.

02:12You could also do it at the waterfall and a few other places. And for it,

02:15you get a certificate for your stupidity. So to get the certificate, how long do you have

02:19to stay in? You just have to go in. You have to go all in. You have to go all in. All in.

02:23Okay. Yeah. Man, you guys are tough up here. It's awesome.

02:26All right. Ladies and gentlemen,

02:28please welcome the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Banks.

02:40Now President Trump, as he says all the time and as a lot of people recognize,

02:44is a president of peace. We want to have good relationships with everybody. That includes even

02:49to the extent possible the Chinese and the Russians. But part of having good relations

02:54is showing your strength when you have to. And unfortunately, the story of Greenland over the

03:00past 20 years when it comes to security is that we've underinvested in the infrastructure,

03:05we've underinvested in the security architecture, and we've underinvested in the brave men and women

03:11who are doing a very hard job, as Mike said, to keep all of us safe. That has to change.

03:17Who I joked earlier, I told Mike I'd give him a ride to Utah and we ended up in Greenland.

03:23Now, when I pointed out a couple of weeks ago that in some ways, with all due respect to our

03:29Danish allies, they had not kept pace, there was a lot of criticism from Denmark, a lot of

03:34attacks at the Trump administration, at the president, at me, at others in our administration

03:39for saying the obvious, which is that Denmark hasn't done a good job at keeping Greenland safe.

03:45And one of the things I heard was, well, what about the many Danes who lost their lives in

03:50the war on terror fighting alongside the United States? Well, look, we obviously honor the

03:55sacrifice of our Danish friends in the war on terror 20 years ago, just as, for example,

04:01the French honor the sacrifice of Americans in Normandy 80 years ago. But recognizing that there

04:08are important security partnerships in the past does not mean that we can't have disagreements

04:14with allies in the present about how to preserve our shared security for the future. And that's

04:19what this is about. There is no amount of bullying, no amount of obfuscating, no amount of

04:25confusing the issue. Our message to Denmark is very simple. You have not done a good job by the

04:32people of Greenland. You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested

04:36in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people.

04:42That has to change. And because it hasn't changed, this is why President Trump's policy

04:47in Greenland is what it is. It's consistent with the first Trump administration, where you saw

04:52significant investments in Arctic security, and it will continue over the next four years under

04:57President Trump's leadership. And let me finally, before I kick it over to the media, make one

05:01comment about the people of Greenland. The colonel here, the base commander who came here first as a

05:08second lieutenant, and I guess, colonel, this is your second duty station here, and we're proud of

05:13you and proud of all of you guys who are serving and helping keep us safe. You know, I heard a lot

05:18about the respect that our American troops show for the local Greenlandic population, the way that

05:24we make and create shelter for hunters and dog sledders, the way that we found ways to turn over

05:31traditional tribal land to some of the local populations in order to ensure that they're

05:36able to live in accordance with their values. We respect, as the president said in his State

05:41of the Union address, we respect the self-determination of Greenlanders. We believe

05:48in the self-determination of the population of the people of Greenland. And our argument is very

05:54simple. It is not with the people of Greenland, who I think are incredible and have an incredible

06:00opportunity here. Our argument really is with the leadership of Denmark, which is underinvested in

06:07Greenland and underinvested in its security architecture. That simply must change. It is

06:11the policy of the United States that that will change, and I'm proud to be able to stand here

06:16with so many brave Americans to better understand the security mission and better understand what

06:20you guys do each and every day. For that, I'm grateful. For your service, I'm even more grateful.

06:25I love you guys. I'm proud of you guys. And President Trump stands behind you and will for

06:30the remainder of his administration. Very simple. You have not done a good job by the people of

06:36Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the

06:40security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people.

06:46That has to change. What we think is going to happen is that the Greenlanders are going to

06:51choose, through self-determination, to become independent of Denmark, and then we're going to

06:55have conversations with the people of Greenland from there. So I think that talking about anything

07:01too far in the future is way too premature. We do not think that military force is ever going to be

07:08necessary. We think this makes sense. And because we think the people of Greenland are rational and

07:13good, we think we're going to be able to cut a deal, Donald Trump style, to ensure the security

07:18of this territory, but also the United States of America. This territory, Greenland, really matters

07:25for the security of the United States. It's extremely vulnerable right now. And if the people

07:30of Greenland were willing to partner with the United States, and I think that they ultimately

07:34will partner with the United States, we could make them much more secure. We could do a lot

07:39more protection. And I think they'd fare a lot better economically as well. This has to happen.

07:45And the reason it has to happen, I hate to say it, is because our friends in Denmark have not

07:50done their job in keeping this area safe. They just haven't done it. It's very simple. For all

07:57of our friends in the American media who attack the administration for pointing out the obvious,

08:03what is the alternative? To give up the North Atlantic, to give up the Arctic, to China,

08:09to Russia, and to other regimes that don't have the best interests of the American people at heart?

08:14We have no other option. We need to take a significant position in Greenland to keep the

08:20people here safe, but to keep our own country safe too. But I did want to ask, did you express

08:25your concerns to the president that you were opposed to the Houthi strike? And also, what

08:31did you mean when you said in that thread that the president wasn't aware that his directions for

08:36Yemen were inconsistent with his message on Europe? Well, I didn't quite say that. I think

08:42that's a slight misunderstanding of what I said. But we've talked, of course, in the American media

08:47about Signalgate, as I called it, for the past week. And here's what I told the president and

08:52the entire national security team, is that yes, it is in the interest of the United States of

08:57America to preserve navigation. Yes, it is in the interest of the United States to kill terrorists

09:03who are preventing navigation in the Red Sea. But we've got to make sure that we do it right. We

09:08have to be careful. We have to make sure the timing is right. And of course, what that leak

09:12revealed, I think, is a private communication between the president's senior advisors about

09:17how best to prepare the American people for what we all thought we had to do, about the right timing

09:23of when we should do something, and of course, surfacing the strategic questions that we needed

09:27to decide and brief the president on so that he could ultimately make the decision about what we

09:32would do. What I saw in that signal chat, and of course, what I've seen in the president's senior

09:36national security team, is that sometimes we all agree and sometimes we all disagree,

09:41but it's important that we all have an honest conversation amongst ourselves and with the

09:46president of the United States about what we think is the best interest of the national security

09:50of the United States of America. I support the president's decision to strike the Houthis.

09:56I always supported the president's decision to strike the Houthis, and I support the national

10:00security team having the argument about how best to serve the American people.

10:19Hey guys, how we doing? Please, at ease. At ease. Good lord. Sit down and eat. Sit down and eat.

10:24Don't let the vice president stop you guys from eating your chow here. How we doing?

10:28It's cold as shit here. Nobody told me. Well, thank you all for everything you do,

10:34and thanks for having us. So please sit down, guys. Please, please. I want you to eat your food.

10:38Usha and I are thrilled to be here. It's a really beautiful flight, actually. You fly over some

10:43pretty cool spots. I've never been to Greenland. Apparently, I'm the first vice president to ever

10:47visit Greenland, so that's a pretty cool thing. But we're looking forward to hanging out and

10:52getting to know you guys and understanding what you do. So what do we have? So we're going to,

10:57Mike, we're going to talk to the command and some of the guardians about what exactly the base does

11:02and all the important ways it contributes to national security. We're going to get a briefing,

11:06of course, about what you guys do every day. And then we're going to talk just about, as you've

11:11heard, we have some interest in Greenland from the Trump administration. So we're going to talk

11:15a little bit about that with our friends in the media. But I just want to say thank you all.

11:20Thanks for having us, and thanks for being here. Thanks for doing what you do. The colonel told me

11:25that this is a one-year unaccompanied duty station. When we were flying in, we were wondering whether

11:29you guys were allowed to bring your families here. So I know it's a lot of sacrifice to spend a year

11:34away from your families, but the mission is really important. The Trump administration,

11:39the president is really interested in Arctic security. As you all know, it's a big issue,

11:44and it's only going to get bigger over the coming decades. So thanks for doing what you do.

11:48What's the plan here? So I thought I was serving food, but it looks like I've already gotten their

11:53food. What's the plan from here, guys? I'm sorry? Okay, we're going to get some food here too. Good,

12:00okay. All right, we're sitting right there? Yes, sir. Fantastic. Great. Thank you all for having us.

12:05Thank you all for having us.

12:12Hey guys, how's it going?

12:16Good. Hey guys, how we doing? Please, eat, eat, seriously. So where's everybody from?

12:25Texas. Texas, okay.

13:55So

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