The doc, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance & marked “secret/no foreign national” in most passages, was distributed throughout the #Defense Dept in mid-March & signed by #Hegseth. It outlines, in broad & partisan detail, the execution of #Trump’s vision to prepare for & win a potential #war against #China & defend the #UnitedStates from threats in the “near abroad,” including #Greenland & the #PanamaCanal.

JV #Vance once again speaks out of turn and tells #Greenland that it will be "up to the people of Greenland" to first "vote for independence [from Denmark]", followed by "a vote on whether or not they wish to join the U.S. with its obvious advantages."

#OrangeHitler has made no such offer/promise.

If you recall, it was Vance who assured everyone that #NaziDon would NEVER just pardon all 1,500 #Jan6 rioters. That the "violent" ones will remain in jail. #DoTheyEverTalkToEachOther?

@thesixler #jdvance says #Greenland is not safe.

He is half right. It's not safe from the US anyway.

"Any world in which the United States is talking about taking Greenland is a world that is completely unmoored from any semblance of sanity."

#Putin #Trump #Vance #Greenland #PutinsPoodle #Europe #NATO
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https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/greenland

“Hans Christian Andersen told the unforgettable tale of the naked emperor. In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland

“As with everything Musk-Trump does, however, the cui bono question about imperialism in Greenland is easy to answer: Russia benefits. Putin cannot contain his delight with American imperialism over Greenland. In generating artificial crises in relations with both Denmark and Canada, …the Trump people cut America loose from security gains and create a chaos in which Russia benefits.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #canada #russia

“We really do have a problem taking responsibility. The United States has fallen well behind its allies and its rivals in the Arctic, in part because members of Vance’s political party denied for decades the reality of global warming…”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #arctic #climatechange

“There are only a couple hundred Americans at Pituffik where once there were ten thousand; there is only that one US base on the island [Greenland] where once there were a dozen; but that is American policy, not Denmark’s fault.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato

“Greenland, Denmark, and the United States have been enmeshed in complex and effective security arrangements…for the better part of a century. Arctic security, an issue discovered by Trump and Vance very recently, was a preoccuption for decades during and after the cold war.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato

”It takes some patience to unwind all of the nonsense… When Vance says that Denmark is not protecting Greenland…, he is wishing away generations of cooperation, as well as the NATO alliance itself. … The threat in the Arctic…is Russia… But right now the United States is supporting Russia… No one is doing more to contain the Russian threat than Ukraine.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #usa #denmark #greenland #nato #russia #ukraine

The incoherence of #Trump’s policy in demanding #Greenland is in part about arctic security. But security from whom?

#Russia, who it is siding with against #Ukraine

Snyder’s essay is incredibly good. Read it.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland