Washington's Arctic ambitions landed in Nuuk this week, and they're not exactly low-key, the Guardian reports. On his first trip as US special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry told AFP it is "time for the US to put its footprint back" on the island, arguing that "Greenland needs the US" as the Trump administration talks about boosting security operations and "repopulating" military bases there. He also claimed, per the Hill, that the country "was not on a map, until Donald Trump put it on a map." Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory sitting on the shortest missile path between Russia and the US and rich in rare-earth potential, hosts just one American base under a decades-old defense pact; during the Cold War, it once held 17. Media reports say Washington now wants three more in the south.
The controversial visit—Landry was not officially invited—has stirred unease: Greenland's prime minister called Trump's earlier push to, as the PM described it, "secure control" of the island "completely disrespectful," even as he said they are "obliged to find a solution." Landry also suggested the US could help Greenland move from economic reliance on Denmark toward eventual independence—something many residents favor in principle but not yet in practice. Tensions also sharpened when a US doctor accompanying Landry said he was assessing Greenland's medical needs, prompting the health minister to respond that "Greenlanders are not guinea pigs in a geopolitical project." But on Monday, the BBC reports, Landry insisted he was just in the country to make "friends" and "build relationships."
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