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One Week in March … Greenland Rejects Trump’s Advances and Vance’s Arrogance
It is worth noting that the good people of Greenland are not wholly opposed to the MAGA movement, despite the yearning of Trump and Vance to swallow them up. In fact, MAGA baseball caps, with a slightly altered message, have recently become a popular item on the island. These hats, incidentally, are also reputed to be in demand in Canada.
This is the second in a three-part series titled One Week in March … The series focuses on the damage done to America’s relationships with Canada, Denmark and Greenland — nations that have traditionally been regarded as firm friends and close allies of the United States, during the week that began on Sunday, March 23rd, 2025. The following discussion centers on President Trump’s insistence that the United States must acquire sovereignty over Greenland, which is currently an autonomous territory within the Danish kingdom.
Part 1 in this series, titled One Week in March … as America Turns on its Northern Neighbor discussed the rapid deterioration of our relationship with Canada and was published yesterday. The third and final segment, One Week in March … ‘Flags Flying Together,’ explores some of the factors that appear to motivate the administration’s scornful treatment of our allies — and asks what we, individual citizens who hold no office, can do when the…
