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First emergency shipments of gaslight should arrive in Greenland shortly.
From Nigeria to China and the USA: Mette Frederiksen's comments go around the worldFra Nigeria til Kina og USA: Mette Frederiksens kommentarer går verden rundt (DR.dk, Mar 25, 2025)
Alt fra Daily Post Nigeria, Politico, Reuters, South China Morning Post, The Guardian, Financial Times og Blomberg News bringer historien.
Usha Vance's undiplomatic diplomacy in Greenland is outright weird (MSNBC, Mar 25, 2025)
It feels ridiculously unnecessary for Vance to be dragged into this mess as the soft power side of what’s clearly a good cop-bad cop routine. But, then again, the vice presidency has long been regarded as one of the least consequential roles in Washington. By the transitive property alone, the role of the vice president’s spouse must be up there as far as gigs go. Second ladies (or, as of recently, gentlemen) haven’t accumulated the same sort of cache as cultural icons that first ladies have, but that still doesn’t help explain the odd choice of Vance’s first solo destination.
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Outgoing Prime Minister Múte Egede called Vance’s visit a “highly aggressive” attempt to influence the new government and said that “it can in no way be characterized as a harmless visit from a politician’s wife.” Egede said, “What is the security adviser doing in Greenland? The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power to us, and the signal is not to be misunderstood.”
Why?It would be awesome if the USA controlled Greenland.
Americans are deeply troubled by the ongoing threat of Greenlanders eating our pets.Why?
They're eating our seals, they're eating our whales, they're eating ... our marine mammals.Americans are deeply troubled by the ongoing threat of Greenlanders eating our pets.
*Michael Phelps shudders*They're eating our seals, they're eating our whales, they're eating ... our marine mammals.
Mystery surrounds the U.S. vist: Well-known Greenlanding Trump fan is involvedMystik om USA-besøg: Kendt grønlandsk Trump-fan har finger med i spillet (BT, Mar 25, 2025)
»Alle mulige amerikanske politikere, jeg mødte, spurgte mig: 'Hvad kan vi gøre for at styrke forholdet mellem USA og Grønland?' Og så sagde jeg: 'I kan starte med at sponsorere det her',« siger Jørgen Boassen til Jyllands-Posten.
Og med 'det her' hentyder han til det hundeslædeløb, der på lørdag begynder i Sisimiut.
This is something that the Trump delegation will have to talk with Jørgen 'Quisling' Boassen about. He is not a politician or a representative of anything other than himself, but he appears to be the one who invited them.Somebody please tell me that the officials in Greeenland have told the American delegation that no one is available to take their call at this time, and should consider making an appointment on any future visits?
Cool. They can all hang out at Quissy's place and stop embarassing the people of the United States.This is something that the Trump delegation will have to talk with Jørgen 'Quisling' Boassen about. He is not a politician or a representative of anything other than himself, but he appears to be the one who invited them.
You mean "Governor Boassen"...This is something that the Trump delegation will have to talk with Jørgen 'Quisling' Boassen about. He is not a politician or a representative of anything other than himself, but he appears to be the one who invited them.
That part of it is probably true. He pays Jørgen Boassen to call him."They're calling us, we're not calling them."
If John Bolton had stayed onboard with MAGA, he would have been proud of Trump at this point.United States invasion of Grenada: October 1983 (Wikipedia)
Reagan stated that he felt compelled to act due to "concerns over the 600 U.S. medical students on the island" and fears of a repeat of the Iran hostage crisis, which ended less than three years earlier.
Media: The association behind the dogsled race invited the AmericansMedie: Forening bag hundeslædeløb har inviteret amerikanerne (DR.dk, Mar 25, 2025)
Ifølge en aktindsigt, som det grønlandske medie KNR har fået, er det KNQK, der står for hundeslædeløbet, der har inviteret de amerikanske gæster på besøg til Grønland.
I et officielt brev fra den 16. februar skriver formanden for foreningen, Mikkel Jeremiassen, ifølge KNR:
- Det er en stor ære på vegne af KNQK at invitere dig til at overvære og deltage i det prestigefulde hundeslædevæddeløb i Grønland.
Brevet skulle ifølge KNR være sendt til den amerikanske forsvarsminister.
Mikkel Jeremiassen har tidligere har afvist, at foreningen har noget med invitationen at gøre.
DR kan ikke verificere oplysningerne.
Association in Greenland tried to pressure Greenland's government to pay millionsGrønlandsk forening forsøgte at presse selvstyre for millionbeløb (TV2.dk, Mar 25, 2025)
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Det var helikoptere af typen CH-47 Chinook, som hundeslædeløbet ville spørge amerikanerne, om de kunne låne. Foto: Hannibal Hanschke / Ritzau Scanpix
Den grønlandske forening bag lørdagens meget omtalte hundeslædeløb, KNQK, anmodede 11. marts om en merbevilling på lidt under 1,7 millioner kroner fra det grønlandske selvstyre.
Det skete i en truende tone, skriver det grønlandske medie Sermitsiaq på baggrund af en aktindsigt.
- Hvis ansøgningen om merbevilling for at gennemføre Avannaata Qimussersua 2025 ikke godkendes, må vi ty til hjælp til USA i form af deres helikoptere, CH47, lyder det i en mail fra Mikkel Jeremiassen, formand for KNQK, i en mail til selvstyret ifølge Sermitsiaq.
KNQK trak deres ansøgning til selvstyret tilbage mandag 24. marts, skriver det grønlandske medie. Samme dag kunne DR fortælle, at KNQK havde fået sponsoreret Air Greenland-fly af det amerikanske konsulat til transport i forbindelse med hundeslædeløbet.