US vice president will visit Pituffik space base in Greenland later today
Back to Greenland, Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s defence committee, appeared on CNN last night, offering his take on the US plans for Greenland.
In stark comments, he said:
“We can’t do it. We cannot hand over 57,000 of our citizens to become Americans against their will.”
“I certainly hope not, but that’s up to the American government. We’re not going to back down. We’re not going to hand over Greenland, regardless of what type of pressure is applied to us.”
“There is a lot at stake here, because this is not only a matter of being reasonable to Denmark and Greenland.
It is also a matter of the entire western alliance. Nobody’s going to be allied to a country that tries to annex parts of that country’s territory.
