President Donald Trump has made his fixation on Greenland abundantly clear'enough so to unnerve many of the people who live there. 'I think Greenland is going to be something that maybe is in our future,' he told reporters this week, once again teasing the notion of annexation. Vice President J. D. Vance is traveling there today, after what he called the 'excitement' around his wife's plan to attend a famous dogsledding race. As part of the trip, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright were scheduled to visit a U.S. military base; Greenland's prime minister, Mute B. Egede, called the visit a 'provocation.' Now dogsledding is out, and the entire delegation will together travel to the base. Their aim, the vice president said in a video on X, is to check up on Greenland's security, because unnamed other countries could 'use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States.' And these are real concerns for the United States, rooted in...
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