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The US Vice President, JD Vance, and his wife Usha Vance are carrying out their controversial visit to Greenland today. The trip had to be majorly scaled down after locals in Greenland, a Danish territory with a large degree of autonomy, voiced their anger.
Amid fears of protests, the Vances’ visit, which was originally meant to last three days, has been reduced to just a trip to Pituffik, a remote ice-locked US military base in northwestern Greenland. The decision came after American officials were reportedly left scrambling to find someone willing to meet Mrs Vance in Greenland’s capital Nuuk. Danish television station TV2 claimed the officials even went door-knocking to search people who wanted to meet the Second Lady, only to be told: “No, thank you”. The visit comes amid increasingly concerning threats from the White House, with US President Donald Trump arguing in favour of the States taking over the territory for the sake of its national security.