ON GREENLAND: ‘A FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT’: To put it succinctly, the Danes just don’t get it. They are ready, willing, and able to accommodate whatever President Donald Trump wants to do to bulk up defenses on their strategic Arctic island of Greenland, short of handing it over or selling it to the United States.
“The U.S. has already a wide military access to Greenland. Under the 1951 defense agreement, the U.S. can always ask for increasing its presence in Greenland,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance at the White House on Wednesday. “We would examine any such request constructively.” Rasmussen called the talks “frank, but also constructive,” but added, “Our perspectives continue to differ, I must say.”