President Donald Trump doubled down on his ambitions for the U.S. to acquire Greenland this week. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
"We have to have the land because it’s not possible to properly defend a large section of this Earth — not just the U.S. — without it. So we have to have it, and I think we will have it," he said.
The vice president says he will visit Space Force guardians at the Pituffik Space Base on Friday and "check out what's goin' on with the security there of Greenland."
A press release from Vance's office stated that the base is the Defense Department's "northernmost installation."
Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, with the domes of the Thule Tracking Station, is pictured in northern Greenland. (THOMAS TRAASDAHL/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
"In the decades since, neglect and inaction from Danish leaders and past U.S. administrations have presented our adversaries with the opportunity to advance their own priorities in Greenland and the Arctic. President Trump is rightly changing course."
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