{"id":246,"date":"2025-04-22T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:14:06","slug":"jeffries-leading-delegation-to-denmark-to-discuss-geopolitical-status-of-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/jeffries-leading-delegation-to-denmark-to-discuss-geopolitical-status-of-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries leading delegation to Denmark to discuss 'geopolitical status of Greenland'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit Denmark amid U.S. tensions with the nation and its territory Greenland, he announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jeffries said lawmakers will discuss “the continued importance of the NATO alliance and the geopolitical status of Greenland.”<\/p>\n

Reps. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.), Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) and Laura Friedman (D-Calif.), and Del. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-American Samoa) will join Jeffries on the trip.<\/p>\n

The group is also scheduled to stop for talks in the United Kingdom and Middle East during a time of \u201cglobal uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump has expressed a desire to annex Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, calling it an \u201cabsolute necessity\u201d for national security to combat the presence of China and Russia in the region. Leaders in Greenland and Denmark have sharply pushed back.<\/p>\n

Jeffries in January also criticized what he characterized as<\/a> Trump’s \u201cobsession\u201d with the idea of the U.S. taking over Greenland.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor far too long, the size of the middle class in this country has gone down, but the cost of living has gone up. That\u2019s a problem,\u201d Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is not Greenland; the problem is not the Gulf of Mexico and the need to rename it; and the problem is not the Panama Canal. It\u2019s making sure that the American dream is brought to life for everyone in this nation,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n

Greenland and Denmark have been adamant about insisting the U.S. will not take control of Greenland.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be clear: The United States will not get that,\u201d Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a\u00a0March social media post<\/a>\u00a0after being sworn in. \u201cWe do not belong to others. We decide our own future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice President Vance visited Greenland in late March and proposed a plan<\/a> for a peaceful acquisition of the island.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we think is going to happen is that the Greenlanders are going to choose, through self determination, to become independent of Denmark, and then we\u2019re going to have conversations with the people of Greenland from there,\u201d Vance told reporters two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Danish leaders have said that for the time being, there is nothing stopping the U.S. from implementing more military bases on Greenland to assuage security concerns. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a treaty from 1951 where it is very clear that the Americans have huge access to Greenland,\u201d former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said after Vance\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n

She also questioned if it was time for Denmark to \u201cscale up\u201d on the island<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe irony of all this is that the Americans could do exactly the same,\u201d she said. \u201cGreenland is NATO territory. There\u2019s nothing stopping the Americans from getting more engaged militarily in Greenland, having more bases, if that\u2019s what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit Denmark amid U.S. tensions with the nation and its territory Greenland, he announced Tuesday. Jeffries said<\/p>\n

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