The Greenland Invasion -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/25/the-greenland-invasion/

Trump is sending Usha Vance and NSC adviser Mike Walz to Greenland this week for some reason. He says it’s a “friendly visit” and the Greenlanders invited them.

They did not:

Greenland’s government flatly denied a claim made by President Donald Trump that officials from the island invited a U.S. delegation led by Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, to visit the Arctic territory this week.

Vance and her son are expected to land in Greenland on Thursday, alongside Trump‘s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The Vances will watch a dogsled race and “celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity,” the second lady said in a statement. Waltz and Wright plan to visit a U.S. military base.

Some officials in Greenland, including outgoing Prime Minister Múte B. Egede, have described the trip as a “provocation” and “highly aggressive,” given Trump’s stated desire to acquire the Danish territory.

“We are now at a level where this cannot in any way be characterized as a harmless visit from a politician’s wife,” Egede said Monday. “The only purpose is to demonstrate power over us.”

It is not a harmless visit. How do I know this? Because we have a good idea about how Trump is likely thinking about this:

Sadly, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to think that Trump might simply say “they asked us to help them secure their independence” and maybe even find a couple of Greenlanders to back them up (not that it would be needed.) There are only 56,000 people in Greenland so Hegseth could easily send in a few troops to “secure” the Capitol as “peacekeepers.” (We already have troops there…)

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[BSDemon]

1. Apparently JP Mandel, I mean JD Vance is going too

Greenland should deny them entry.

[FrankTC]

2. How About A Nice Demo

Maybe the Vances and their entourage could be greeted by a crowd with signs in English but also with Danish curses and chants. Maybe burn a Tesla in effigy, though not in a way that would degrade the environment. Something that demonstrates just how eager the Greenlanders are to become citizens (or subjects) of the United States.

[erronis]

5. I think just having a crybertruck in the saltwater air would destroy it soon.

[raccoon]

3. Sic Polar bears on them!

[lame54]

4. Wouldn't that be an invasion of Denmark?