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3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.  We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments.  The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. 
 

Our Allies and partners will not trust us again.  We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.  

And this is still the top of the 1st.

We are going isolationist, and we are never going back.

These are the first steps to a solitary death for this very sick former power.

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35 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.  We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments.  The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. 
 

Our Allies and partners will not trust us again.  We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.  

yep. pretty much.

i mean it's really, dramatically heart-breaking if you think about it too much. crushing almost. and we're only two months in. 

i focus on family, friends, nature, sunshine and puppies. lots and lots of puppies.

 

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.  We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments.  The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. 
 

Our Allies and partners will not trust us again.  We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.  

 

the children and grandchildren will be celebrating how much musk is saving on his taxes and how all his govt contracts were 100% fraud free !

 

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2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Tulsi Gabbard is exactly as bad as could be imagined.  It’s incredible to see the Director of National Intelligence retweeting Ian Miles Cheong.  What we are seeing in institutions reminds me of the Cultural Revolution. 

 

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Lmfao what are you talking about? Ian Miles Cheong is a preferred news source in the Daily Texan

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Follow up on someone's previous post about the new Canadian PM purposefully snubbing the US for obvious reasons. I'm sure we've all noticed the almost total silence of this board's cowardly "conservative" contigent the last month or so -- even in DT.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks alliances in Europe as he deals with Trump

MONTREAL (AP) — New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London on Monday to seek alliances as he deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.

Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence.

At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous, and said Canada is fundamentally different from America and will “never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States.”

A senior government government official briefed reporters on the plane before picking up Carney in Montreal and said the purpose of the trip is to double down on partnerships on with Canada’s two founding countries. The official said Canada is a “good friend of the United States but we all know what is going on.”

“The Trump factor is the reason for the trip. The Trump factor towers over everything else Carney must deal with,” said Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

Carney, a former central banker who turned 60 on Sunday, will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday and later travel to London to sit down with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in an effort to diversify trade and perhaps coordinate a response to Trump’s tariffs.

He will also meet with King Charles III, the head of state in Canada. The trip to England is a bit a homecoming, as Carney is a former governor of the Bank of England, the first noncitizen to be named to the role in the bank’s 300-plus-year history.

Carney then travels to the edge of Canada’s Arctic to “reaffirm Canada’s Arctic security and sovereignty” before returning to Ottawa where he’s expected to call an election within days.

Carney has said he’s ready to meet with Trump if he shows respect for Canadian sovereignty. He said he doesn’t plan to visit Washington at the moment but hopes to have a phone call with the president soon.

Sweeping tariffs of 25% and Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state have infuriated Canadians, and many are avoiding buying American goods when they can.

Carney’s government is reviewing the purchase of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets in light of Trump’s trade war.

The governing Liberal Party had appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year until Trump declared economic war and repeatedly has said Canada should become the 51st state. Now the party and its new leader could come out on top.

Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto, said Carney is wise not to visit Trump.

“There’s no point in going to Washington,” Bothwell said. “As (former Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau’s treatment shows, all that results in is a crude attempt by Trump to humiliate his guests.”

Bothwell said that Trump demands respect, “but it’s often a one-way street, asking others to set aside their self-respect to bend to his will.”

Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said it is absolutely essential that Canada diversify trade amidst the ongoing trade war with the United States. More than 75% of Canada’s exports go to the U.S.

Béland said Arctic sovereignty is also a key issue for Canada.

“President Trump’s aggressive talk about both Canada and Greenland and the apparent rapprochement between Russia, a strong Arctic power, and the United States under Trump have increased anxieties about our control over this remote yet highly strategic region,” Béland said.

 

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17 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This sure seems like priming the pump for an Iran war.

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Can't have an election if you are in a war (trump pointing to zelensky)

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I cannot emphasize enough how insane it is that the White House allowed a rapist MMA fighter who has said he will run for president of Ireland launch an attack on his country’s policies from the White House podium on their national holiday. 
 

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French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty'

A French member of the European parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue.

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10 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Tulsi Gabbard is exactly as bad as could be imagined.  It’s incredible to see the Director of National Intelligence retweeting Ian Miles Cheong.  What we are seeing in institutions reminds me of the Cultural Revolution. 

 

 

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@Anastasis your thoughts on Ian Miles Cheong?  And a DNI that reposts such claptrap?  A Malaysian gamer?

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35 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

@Anastasis your thoughts on Ian Miles Cheong?  And a DNI that reposts such claptrap?  A Malaysian gamer?

Seems like a right wing social media grifter. Not sure if the content of that post is claptrap or not, no really fully formed opinion on that, but certainly open to discussing it. I don't think that she should be retweeting any accounts. Could be worse I guess. She could be a consultant for Palantir. 

 

More interested in this retweet though to be honest. 

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On 3/17/2025 at 7:15 PM, TwiceHorn said:

@Anastasis your thoughts on Ian Miles Cheong?  And a DNI that reposts such claptrap?  A Malaysian gamer?

Anastasia and Cheong are aligned that noticing Bucha is bad and likely a fake. You will recall that was his position when it came to light. 
 

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On 3/17/2025 at 4:40 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

This sure seems like priming the pump for an Iran war.

Remember Donald Trump claimed he invented that phrase. 

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On 3/17/2025 at 6:49 PM, Anastasis said:

Seems like a right wing social media grifter. Not sure if the content of that post is claptrap or not, no really fully formed opinion on that, but certainly open to discussing it. I don't think that she should be retweeting any accounts. Could be worse I guess. She could be a consultant for Palantir. 

 

More interested in this retweet though to be honest. 

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I don't care if he posts Newton's laws  or the Relativity Theorem.

It's Ian Miles Cheong.  Not a source that a cabinet level US official should be reading much less retweeting.

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Anastasia and Cheong are aligned that noticing Bucha is bad and likely a fake. You will recall that was his position when it came to light. 

You won't be able to find any post where I called it a hoax or fake. I do think that it deserves/d a full investigation before being used as a lever for the war drums. Same as I did wrt the beheaded babies bit that you were running around trying to spike the football on here when Uncle Joe got out over his skies and you had to quickly back pedal. 

5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Not a source that a cabinet level US official should be reading much less retweeting.

Agree. 

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On 3/14/2025 at 12:21 PM, Brisketexan said:

That was my counterpoint.  We get an insurgency.  We get counter-strikes in the US.  And, we may well get at least partial mutiny within US military units, as well as possible outright secession of US states that are not willing to go along with such bullshit.  Not inconceivable to see the West Coast go.  Hawaii could be interesting as well.

You will either see the US military stand down and refuse the order to attack our neighbor or you’ll see them finally give Dotard a military “parade” that ends at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I vote they do both and end the stupidity.

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13 hours ago, Anastasis said:

You won't be able to find any post where I called it a hoax or fake. I do think that it deserves/d a full investigation before being used as a lever for the war drums.

Y'all notice how Putin and Trump fans call into doubt anything and everything that contradicts their chosen worldview/outcome, calling for a "full investigation".....then steadfastly ignore/pretend that the very thing they call for exists?

I have.  

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/21/ukraine-russian-forces-trail-death-bucha

https://apnews.com/article/bucha-ukraine-war-cleansing-investigation-43e5a9538e9ba68a035756b05028b8b4

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/video/russia-ukraine-bucha-massacre-takeaways.html

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-bucha-1-year-on-slow-progress-in-war-crime-probes/a-65182829

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/6/21/inside-ukraine-war-crimes-investigations

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/05/ukraine-russian-forces-must-face-justice-for-war-crimes-in-kyiv-oblast-new-investigation/

 

And we could go on and on -- investigations by HRW, Amnesty, a rather diverse group of private journalistic outfits, etc.

Remember, you're reading posts by a guy who claims not to know much about who Ian Miles Cheong is (and similar outfits and voices), and when called on it, consistently engages in the "tu quoque" logical fallacy to distract from the bullshit he promotes.  There is zero intellectual honesty in Ana's posts.  He preaches as holy gospel, chiseled into stone, that Ukraine was asking for it, the war is Ukraine and the West's fault, etc.  But when indisputable evidence of Russian war crimes and efforts by Russia not to "improve its security" but to functionally exterminate a state and a people....well, we need to wait for "further investigation." And now, you'll see his reply where he says that none of the links I posted reflect any "investigation."  Note that there is no such thing as an "investigation" of Bucha that would satisfy Ana.

This is how they work.  Pay attention.

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Y'all create some wild mental strawmen. Again, you will never find a post where I called Bucha fake or a hoax. It seems clear that there was a massacre of civilians and POWs in Bucha, ethnic cleansing at a minimum. It should be investigated and the individuals responsible prosecuted. This shit isn't hard guys. But it is funny watching y'all try to bootstrap an argument based on putting words in my mouth.  

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11 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Y'all create some wild mental strawmen. Again, you will never find a post where I called Bucha fake or a hoax. It seems clear that there was a massacre of civilians and POWs in Bucha, ethnic cleansing at a minimum. It should be investigated and the individuals responsible prosecuted. This shit isn't hard guys. But it is funny watching y'all try to bootstrap an argument based on putting words in my mouth.  

Didn't say you called it fake.  What you did is place a typical impossible-to-meet burden of proof on any counter-view, and couch as gospel truth your views (that Ukraine and the West were asking for it, and poor Russia couldn't help it, really, Russia did the right and natural thing, and it has nothing to do with greed, imperialist ambitions, or seeing surrounding human populations as either expendable or a resource to be owned).

Just own what you are.  It'll be so much more honest.

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15 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


How about the one in Vegas and the state of Louisiana?

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Or out in Forney Tx

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47 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Y'all create some wild mental strawmen. Again, you will never find a post where I called Bucha fake or a hoax. It seems clear that there was a massacre of civilians and POWs in Bucha, ethnic cleansing at a minimum. It should be investigated and the individuals responsible prosecuted. This shit isn't hard guys. But it is funny watching y'all try to bootstrap an argument based on putting words in my mouth.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

ah, a classic of yours. Well done!

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15 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


How about the one in Vegas and the state of Louisiana?

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Actually, I don't even understand why this is a subject of argument.  Send the Statue of Liberty back to France, we clearly don't want it anymore.  And we can just get things over with and replace it with what we clearly DO want:

w_1280

Y'all think I'm kidding.  Again....I am not.

The chances of us having a colossal golden statue of Trump in NY or DC within the next 4 years are better than 50%.

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36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Didn't say you called it fake.  What you did is place a typical impossible-to-meet burden of proof on any counter-view, and couch as gospel truth your views (that Ukraine and the West were asking for it, and poor Russia couldn't help it, really, Russia did the right and natural thing, and it has nothing to do with greed, imperialist ambitions, or seeing surrounding human populations as either expendable or a resource to be owned).

Just own what you are.  It'll be so much more honest.

Sorry brisket, but no one should have to listen to lectures from you on honesty in political rhetoric. 

Where did I place an impossible to meet burden of proof on anything in this exchange?  Again, remember, you are talking to me, not the imaginary strawman in your head. 

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Just now, Anastasis said:

Sorry brisket, but no one should have to listen to lectures from you on honesty in political rhetoric. 

Where did I place an impossible to meet burden of proof on anything in this exchange?  Again, remember, you are talking to me, not the imaginary strawman in your head. 

Tell me where I got your take wrong here: roadblocks, "just asking questions," constant reminders of the burden of proof on any issue that would tilt things in favor of Ukraine's cause, vs. stanning, championing, and acceptance of almost every fact/take consistent with Russia's cause.  You do not apply your skepticism/burden of proof takes evenly.....not even close.  Laughably not even close.

On the bright side, you've mostly shed your "both sides" cloak that you covered yourself in for years.  So, my hat's off to you for that.  

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Now that Putin clearly understands how much of a cuck Trump is, he’s not going to settle for anything. He will just go ahead and takeover all of Ukraine, or at least everything he has today, and possibly more. 

The stupidity in negotiating with a sense of urgency is astounding. All it does is tell your negotiating opponent you’re desperate. 

The Taliban already de-pants’d Trump, leaving a mess in Afghanistan that Biden had to clean up. Who the hell gives a date for exiting a war a year in advance? An idiot.

Putin is just bending Trump over the table at this point.

Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal. 

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Ana pretending not to know who Ian Miles Cheong is reminds me of that time 52-80 pretended not to know Alex Jones peddled Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.

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21 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Ana pretending not to know who Ian Miles Cheong is reminds me of that time 52-80 pretended not to know Alex Jones peddled Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.

I'm half-convinced 52-80 *is* Ian Miles Cheong.

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5 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

Now that Putin clearly understands how much of a cuck Trump is, he’s not going to settle for anything. He will just go ahead and takeover all of Ukraine, or at least everything he has today, and possibly more. 

The stupidity in negotiating with a sense of urgency is astounding. All it does is tell your negotiating opponent you’re desperate. 

The Taliban already de-pants’d Trump, leaving a mess in Afghanistan that Biden had to clean up. Who the hell gives a date for exiting a war a year in advance? An idiot.

Putin is just bending Trump over the table at this point.

Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal. 

I saw someone (might have been on these threads here actually) describe it:

Trump acts like the belligerent and bad cop to our friends and makes his staff be the good guys

Trump acts like a friendly and good cop to our enemies and makes his staff be the bad guys.

And, of all people, Rubio is seen as the good guy to our allies, EU, etc.

Where I disagree with the original poster of that above is that I don't think he does this on purpose or strategically.

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10 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Tell me where I got your take wrong here: roadblocks, "just asking questions," constant reminders of the burden of proof on any issue that would tilt things in favor of Ukraine's cause, vs. stanning, championing, and acceptance of almost every fact/take consistent with Russia's cause.  You do not apply your skepticism/burden of proof takes evenly.....not even close.  Laughably not even close.

On the bright side, you've mostly shed your "both sides" cloak that you covered yourself in for years.  So, my hat's off to you for that.  

lol. You’re clowning brisket. 

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4 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Thanks for the drive by @ twice. Good talk. 

Not sure what this references, but you're a big Tulsi Gabbard supporter.  Her reposting ot IMC kind of shows what sort of media environment in which she's immersed.  And also shows sterling judgment.  But I guess it's ok to say the quiet part out loud now.  And to be unserious.

Also, I suspect a DNI should follow our own injunction and gtfo twitter or at least do it on the down low.

 

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Greenland officials express fury over Trump’s plan to send a delegation.
Relations between Greenland and the United States sank further on Sunday as the Greenlandic prime minister erupted over what he called a “highly aggressive” delegation of senior officials the Trump administration said it would send to the island this week.

Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, are among the officials headed to the island, which is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, though President Trump has vowed to make it part of the United States “one way or the other.”

Ms. Vance is scheduled to make a series of cultural stops after her arrival on Thursday, separate from Mr. Waltz. The national security adviser is supposed to be traveling earlier in the week with the U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright.

The prime minister, Mute B. Egede, said on Sunday that Greenlanders’ effort to be diplomatic just “bounces off Donald Trump and his administration in their mission to own and control Greenland.”

He made the remarks, his angriest yet, to a Greenlandic newspaper on Sunday, and a high-ranking member of his party confirmed them. The prime minister seemed especially upset with Mr. Waltz’s involvement.

“What is the national security adviser doing in Greenland?” he asked. “The only purpose is to demonstrate power over us.”

“His mere presence in Greenland will no doubt fuel American belief in Trump’s mission — and the pressure will increase,” he added.

Other Greenlandic officials complained about the inopportune timing of the visit, pointing out that Greenland had just held parliamentary elections and that a new government has not even been formed.

“The fact that the Americans are well aware we are in the middle of negotiations,” said Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the leader of the most popular political party, “once again shows a lack of respect for the Greenlandic people.”

Greenlanders have become increasingly wary of Mr. Trump’s intentions. A recent poll found that a vast majority of people on the island, which lies along the Arctic Ocean and is mostly covered in ice, do not want to become part of the United States. Still, many have also voiced a desire to improve relations with Washington. Until now, most Greenlandic officials have tried to walk a fine line, asserting their sense of sovereignty while avoiding antagonizing Mr. Trump.

The Trump administration has presented the visit as friendly, saying in a statement on Sunday that Ms. Vance would travel with one of her children on Thursday and attend Greenland’s national dog-sled race, Avannaata Qimussersu, returning to the United States on Saturday.

“Ms. Vance and the delegation are excited to witness this monumental race and celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity,” the statement said.

Separately, Mr. Waltz is expected to tour a U.S. military base, two U.S. officials said. The United States has a small missile defense base on the northern part of the island and has kept troops on Greenland since World War II.

Mr. Wright, Mr. Trump’s energy secretary, is expected to join Mr. Waltz to see the base, according to another person with knowledge of the visit, as the Trump administration eyes rare earth minerals and other resources on Greenland. Potentially lucrative resources are scattered all around the island, but extreme weather, fired-up environmentalists and other factors have tempered hopes of large-scale operations.

Other senior administration officials may also visit, according to one of the officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the trip.

A spokesman for Mr. Waltz said the visit was for gathering information and exploring local culture.

“The United States has a vested security interest in the Arctic region, and it should not be a surprise the national security adviser and secretary of energy are visiting a U.S. space base to get firsthand briefings from our service members on the ground,” Brian Hughes, the National Security Council spokesman, said in a statement. “We also look forward to experiencing Greenland’s famous hospitality and are confident that this visit presents an opportunity to build on partnerships that respects Greenland’s self-determination and advances economic cooperation. This is a visit to learn about Greenland, its culture, history and people.”

A White House spokesman did not answer a question about whether the officials had been invited.

Mr. Trump has continued to ratchet up his talk of seizing Greenland, part of an expansionist mind-set in his second term that has also taken aim at Canada and the Panama Canal. Mr. Trump privately spoke about both in meetings during his first term, and some of his advisers explored the idea of acquiring Greenland, which had been an on-and-off national security proposal in the United States for decades.

Soon after his election in 2024, he began pushing advisers to find a way to make a Greenland acquisition a reality. The idea of retaking the Panama Canal soon followed.

Greenland has been connected to Denmark for more than 300 years. The Danes colonized it, but over time folded it into Denmark, and eventually granted Greenlanders more autonomy to run their own affairs.

The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made clear on Sunday that neither Denmark nor Greenland had solicited the trips.

“The visit from the United States cannot be seen in isolation from the public statements that have been made,” Ms. Frederiksen said. She added, “This is something we take seriously.”

This will be Ms. Vance’s second solo trip internationally as second lady. The other was a visit this month to Italy leading the U.S. delegation to the Special Olympics World Winter Games.

Mr. Egede did not seem placated by Ms. Vance’s stated plans to soak up Greenlandic culture.

“We are now at a point where it can no longer be described as an innocent visit from a politician’s spouse,” he said, adding that “the international community must now react.”



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