Vice -president JD Vance refuses his words too minced meat with European allies.
From exploding European countries on censorship issues, to the public insistence of Ukrainian vice President VolodyMyr Zenskyy To express gratitude for American support during his conflict with Russia, Vance has secured his place as a vocal lawyer and messenger for the “America First” agenda of the Trump government.
Now VANCE has another chance to deliver the Gospel of the Trump government. He will visit on Friday in Greenland in the midst of the president’s efforts Donald Trump To check a different profit of foreign policy for his administration and to acquire the Danish territory.
Although, historically, vice presidents have taken refuge in the wings and have allowed the president to be central in the field of foreign policy, that is not the case for Vance. He is now in foreign policy.
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President Donald Trump and vice -president JD Vance met the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy during a controversial exchange in the White House in February. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
“He is someone who doesn’t just sit down and back as Mike Pence often did,” said a Gop -Bron who was familiar with Trump’s “America First” agenda on Thursday to Fox News Digital. “He really takes the lead.”
Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance, together with Waltz, are ready to visit Pituffik Space Base in Greenland Friday, the northernmost military installation of the Ministry of Defense in which the 821st Space Force Base Group of Space Force accommodates to give racet perpetration, rocket defense and space.
Vance’s departure from his predecessors and involvement in the foreign policy theater stems from a generation shift after the Global War on Terror, according to the Republican Rep. Brian Mast from Florida.
While former vice presidents Mike Pence and Joe Biden had no direct military experience, this is not the case for the current cohort of leaders of foreign policy in the White House.
Vance, who served in the Marine Corps for four years and completed a deployment in Iraq, and national security adviser Mike Waltz, a former Green Beret of the army that served four in Afghanistan, is now calling for the shots on foreign policy initiatives for the White House agenda.
“Just like myself, Mike Waltz and others, he served in the Global War on Terror and saw first hand the damage of bad foreign policy,” said Mast, a combat veteran who lost his two feet during a bet in Afghanistan, in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital. “In contrast to other vice presidents, JD is not afraid to go outside and talk about what he cares about – and what he cares for is to put America first.”
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Rep. Brian Mast from Florida is on stage at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee in July 2024. (Mike Fresh/Reuters)
The Trump government has accused Denmark of it in neglect Greenland and Trump has said that acquiring Greenland is crucial for national security purposes as a strategic area in the Arctic.
But leaders in Denmark and Greenland remain unambiguously against Greenland, which is part of the US, although the Prime Minister of Greenland has called for the independence of Copenhagen.
In the meantime, Denmark has been examined for the treatment of indigenous people from Greenland. A group of indigenous women from Greenland complained to the Danish government in May 2024 and accused Danish health officials to fit them with intra -uterine devices without their knowledge between the sixties and seventies.
Denmark and Greenland started an investigation into the case in 2022 and the report is expected for release this year.
A senior civil servant of the White House said in a statement to FOX News Digital that the treatment of Denmark of the people in Greenland will be a prominent aspect of the visit.
“Unfortunately, Danish leaders have spent decades for decades of the Greenland people, treating them as second-class citizens and the infrastructure on the island can fall into disrepair. Expect the vice-president to emphasize these points,” said the civil servant.
Greenland is rich in natural resources, including oil and natural gas, and both Russia and China have strengthened their presence in the region in recent years.
Vice -President JD Vance Zwoer in Pete Hegseeth as Minister of Defense on January 25, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)
Mast also pointed out how European countries promise to strengthen the expenditure of defense as an example of VANCE’s leadership. President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission made a proposal of $ 841 billion on 4 March for the countries of the European Union to improve defense expenditure.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised in February to increase the defense expenditure of his country to 2.5% of his gross domestic value. That is an increase compared to the 2.3% that the UK currently spends and is an increase of almost $ 17 billion.
As a result, Mast said that VANCE’s approach is successful in lighting a fire among European allies to take action.
“He wants to ensure that America is not benefited or is taken for granted,” said Mast. “We need a Europe that comes up and is an equal partner, because if you are not a partner, then you are dependent. Europe must hear this difficult talk and it already works.”
Vance’s difficult attitude on Europe recently emerged when reports from a group cat leaking strikes against Yemen on Monday, according to a report from the Atlantic Ocean.
The group cat, including civil servants of the White House such as Waltz and Minister of Defense Pete Hegseethoutlined plans to hit Houthi rebels supported by Iran. Vance initially remained skeptical about the strikes, and in one message he said: “I just hate to save Europeans again.”
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National security adviser Mike Waltz will join Vance during the trip to Greenland March 28, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty images)
Vance has also publicly indicated such views in recent performances. During the Security Conference of Munich in February, he explained the position of the Trump government that Europe “makes up in a great way to take care of its own defense”, while also warning that Russia and China are not in danger as a major threat to European nations such as the “threat from the inside”, with regard to issues of censure and religious issues.
European leaders discussed the statements and the German defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that he interpreted the comments as a comparison with “Conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes.”
When Zenskyy visited the White House in February, Vance did not shy away from the position of the Trump administration. After Zenskyy pointed out that the Russian president Vladimir Putin Has a history of breaking similarities and challenged Vance’s statements that the path was ahead through diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, Vance accused Zenskyy of being ‘disrespectful’.
“Do you think it is respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that tries to prevent the destruction of your country?” Early Vance during the Oval Office Meeting.
Vance refused to comment through a spokesperson when he was reached for a statement from Fox News Digital.
Now VANCE is planned to re -exert its foreign policy skills with a trip abroad less than eight weeks after he appeared in Munich and his spit with Zenskyy.
President Donald Trump suggested for the first time to buy Greenland in 2019 during his first term. (Getty Images)
Although it is unclear whether the Trump administration will successfully take over Greenland, the Republican Senator Jim Banks of Indiana, a member of the Senate Guard Services Committee, predicted that Vance’s understanding of the first agenda of Trump will again shine during the journey of the vice -president to Greenland.
“JD Vance was a big messenger for that agenda in the Oval Office Exchange with Zensky, in his speech in Munich, and I expect that we will see it again during his trip to Greenland,” Banks said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Charles Creitz from Fox News has contributed to this report.
