Vance joins wife's Greenland visit to boost US security efforts
Vice President J.D. Vance announced that, like his wife, he will visit Greenland on Friday. The Vice President is set to visit the American base on the island and "check out what's happening with security in Greenland." The American delegation was not formally invited to the island.
In a video posted on platform X, Vance stated that his wife Usha's planned Thursday visit has sparked so much excitement that he doesn't want her to "have all that fun by herself" and decided to join her. The Vice President announced that he will go to the island on Friday to visit the stationed Space Force soldiers and "check out what's happening with security in Greenland."
— 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, — said Vance. He declared that together with President Donald Trump, they want to "reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland."
— Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long — declared Vance.
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Approximately 150 U.S. Space and Air Force soldiers are stationed at the Pituffik base (formerly Thule) on the northwest coast of Greenland. The base conducts missile warning operations, space surveillance, and command and control of United States satellites.
White House statement on Vance's visit
In an official statement released shortly afterward, the White House informed that Vance's visit, accompanied by his wife Usha, will take place instead of the previously announced visit by a U.S. delegation led by the Second Lady.
The delegation was to include, among others, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and the President's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The official purpose of that visit was to tour sites related to Greenland's heritage and watch the annual dog sled race. The American delegation was not formally invited to the island, and the outgoing Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute B. Egede considered it "aggressive" and a provocation.
