Vice President JD Vance will visit a US military facility in Greenland on Friday, putting more pressure on the autonomous Danish region that Donald Trump wishes to take over.
Vance, who has become Trump’s foreign policy attack dog, will go to Pituffik Space Base with his wife Usha “to receive a briefing on Arctic security issues and meet with US service members,” according to his office’s statement on Tuesday.
The news came only hours after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen criticised the US second lady’s planned travel to Greenland, which occurred before the vice president stated that he would accompany his wife, as putting “unacceptable pressure” on both the region and Denmark.
“There was so much excitement around Usha’s visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn’t want her to have all that fun by herself, and so I’m going to join her,” Vance said in a video Tuesday.
Since returning to power in January, Trump has insisted he wants the United States to take over Greenland for national security purposes and has refused to rule out the use of force.
In his video announcement, Vance said other countries sought to use the territory to “threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and, of course, to threaten the people of Greenland.”
Trump has also recently talked about annexing Canada, saying it should become the “51st state” of the United States.
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