Anne Applebaum

to have troops there, military equipment there for decades.

So if the U.S.

thought Greenland was very important,

and thought it was an important military asset.

There's nothing stopping the US from, together with Denmark, rebuilding, I don't know, new bases on the island.

Nor is it true that Denmark has not protected Greenland.

I mean, Denmark pays for Greenland.

Denmark has invested in Greenland.

It's a longer story.

The worst part about the JD Vance, this kind of condescension, is also just that it's based on lies.

Right.

It creates a false reality.

I mean, oh, the Danes aren't investing in Greenland.

Well, actually, the U.S.

could invest in Greenland and doesn't either.

So it creates a fake world in which things that aren't true appear to be true.

So these are huge protests.

I mean, you're right that it's not the first time and the internet is now cut off there.

And so there may be repression going on at a scale that we can't immediately see.

I mean, there are a couple of things that are new about these.