Since the beginning of the election campaign, Nielsen had urged the other parties to put aside the differences to quickly form a large executive of national unity, a gesture necessary to counter Washington’s growing pressure on the country, which risks being transformed into a goal for annexation. His appeal was listened to by four of the five political parties, who together will check 23 of the 31 seats in the Intesisartup, the Unicameral Parliament. The only party that has not joined the coalition is Naleraq, a sovereign force that instead pushes for an immediate referendum on independence from Denmark. Nielsen’s position is much more cautious: favorable to secession, but only when the country has solved its internal problems.
The new government immediately received the congratulations of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who took the opportunity to launch a veiled criticism of Washington. On X, the von der Leyen wrote: “You deserve partners who respect you and hand out from equal to peer. The European Union is proud to be a partner of this type”. Meanwhile, the visit of the vice -president Vance, accompanied by his wife Usha, by the National Security Councilor Mike Waltz, by his wife Julia Nesheiwat, by the secretary of energy Chris Wright and the senator of Utah Mike Lee, proved to be anything but easy. Reduced compared to the initial programs, the visit saw the cancellation of participation in a race of sleds towed by dogs, and no invitation from local authorities. To make the stay even more bitter, according to a service broadcast by TV2, no inhabitant of Greenland has agreed to be photographed with the second lady in the United States, Usha Vance.
Despite these difficulties, Vance, the first US vice -president to visit the island and the highest American exponent after Donald Trump Jr., did not hesitate to criticize Danish leaders for not having “done a good job” and having invested too little in Greenland, leaving the vulnerable territory to pressure from Moscow and Beijing. But the vice -president also kept to minimize Trump’s war declarations on the use of strength, stating that “We don’t think that military force will ever be needed”. According to Vance, the real solution will be that the Greenlanders choose, through self -determination, independence from Denmark, and subsequently the United States will have “conversations” with them, to get to an agreement that guarantees the safety of the territory and the USA. Vance has also announced that Washington will invest further in the region, in particular with the sending of military ships and breakdown.
Previously Trump had released more vague but equally intimidating statements, stating that “we need Greenland for international security”, and that “I think they will understand, otherwise we will explain it to him”. Its position continues to echo to a annexation project that according to many critics follows that of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, with the aggravating circumstance that Greenland is an allied country in the Born. The Tsar, while continuing to strengthen the Russian presence in the Arctic, has implicitly granted Washington a go -aheadrecognizing that the plans of the United States for Greenland “are serious” and have “deep historical ties”.
With this blitz in Greenland JD Vance is trying to leave the shade of Trump and consolidate his role as an antagonist towards the European allies, as already highlighted in his criticisms of the Monaco conference and in the recent controversies that emerged from the Pentagon chat on the raids against the Houthi. The vice -president seems to want to give a further acceleration to the isolationist and economic populist tendencies of his former boss, while he already looks to a possible future at the White House in 2028.
But why does Trump want Greenland at all costs? Just 56 thousand inhabitants, the largest island in the world is coveted for several reasons: from wealth of hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) and rare lands (about 70 percent of those classified today) to the ideal location along one of the Main commercial maritime routes in the world. The aims of the USA and China are understandable, because the ecological and digital transition seems to pass from Greenland.
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