Denmark in Trump's crosshairs as Vance makes ambitious appeal to Greenland

Denmark on Friday found itself in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs. Trump appears to be honing in on what his administration is now arguing is a failure by Copenhagen to protect Greenland from Russian and Chinese aggression.   

Speaking to American soldiers from the U.S.’s Pituffik Space Base in northwest Greenland, Vice President Vance said, "Denmark hasn't done a good job at keeping Greenland safe."

"What we think is going to happen is that the Greenlanders are going to choose, through self-determination, to become independent of Denmark," Vance explained in a more toned-down approach from Trump’s previous statements. "And then we're going to have conversations with the people of Greenland f...