Vice President JD Vance told American service members that the Danish government hasn’t adequately protected Greenland and insisted the U.S. must “do more” to counter what he claimed was “Russian and Chinese encroachment” on the strategically important Arctic island, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex.
Speaking at Pituffik Space Base during a short visit alongside his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and other administration officials, Vance accused Copenhagen of having “not kept pace with military spending” and failing to allocate sufficient resources necessary to “keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and from other nations.”
