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J.D. Vance and his wife are planning to go to Greenland to scope it out and see if the natives are friendly, sort of a modern-day Lewis and Clark expedition. The natives got wind of the trip and made it clear that: (1) they are not friendly and (2) the Vances are not welcome. In particular, they have no interest whatsoever of being sold to the U.S.
Vance was planning to visit Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, which has a population of about 20,000. In case you thought Nuuk was all igloos and polar bears, it's not. People there speak Greenlandic, which is an Eskimo-Aleut language related to the Inuktitut spoken in Canada. So, if Greenland and Canada both become U.S. states, they will be able to talk to each other. Here is a photo of the Nuussuaq district of Nuuk:
After the disinvitation, the Vances' plans had to change, in part to avoid protests and demonstrations against them and the U.S. But to avoid losing face, the VP couldn't cancel the trip to Greenland altogether, so he is going to make a pointless visit to the U.S. Space Force base at Pittufik instead. Vance said of his new destination: "We want to reinvigorate the security of Greenland because we think it's important to protecting the security of the entire world." He will take NSA Mike Waltz with him. Waltz is taking a lot of flak for SignalGate, so hiding at a military base in Greenland makes a lot of sense.
Greenland does have some valuable minerals, but there is no need for the U.S. to own Greenland to get them. Any U.S. mining company that is interested in them is free to make a deal with the government of Denmark, which Greenland is a part of, to extract them and pay some royalty. U.S. oil and mining companies operate all over the world under similar conditions. (V)