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Peter Aagaard

@peteraagaard.bsky.social
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Associate professor, Roskilde University, political scientist, author, dad, political communication, organisation, leadership & public administration

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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deja-vu - Zuckerberg once said we had to compromise on privacy to get the ‘benefits’ of social media.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So if there is no NATO, there is no Greenland deal🤔? Does this mean Trump will reclaim Greenland, if NATO breaks in Russian hybrid war? Sounds like an sweet deal for MAGA… www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
Denmark says NATO shares responsibility for Arctic security under Greenland deal
Denmark, Greenland and the US are to sign a deal on Greenland's security on Tuesday.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We all know why. Still too many politicians and too much of the media seem to ignore it: climate change is here and it kills people www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Heatwave-hit Europe logs over 30,000 excess summer deaths: first figures
Europe saw at least 30,000 excess deaths across a blistering summer of back-to-back heatwaves and drought which scientists have blamed on man-made climate change, according to provisional figures.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“Love & kindness is the most punk you can do right now. It’s a form of rebellion” David Byrne #rf26 #roskildefestival
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
😊🥁📣Happy to share that ‘Policy expertise in times of crisis’ (coauthored with Brian Head and Marleen Easton) was one of Policy & Politics’s most highly cited articles in 2025! Link to collection: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/page/highly-... Link to the article doi.org/10.1332/0305...
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Highly Cited Collection
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hjørnetands-regeringen? Den har vi alle fire af. Så må de selv rode med, hvem der sidder i hhv over- og underkæbe. Tilgengæld bliver rodbehandlingen gratis. #dkpol
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Pimpernel-regeringen? Den er rød, men redder de rige fra top-top skatten #dkpol nyheder.tv2.dk/live/politik...
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Hvad skal den nye regering hedde?
Bliv opdateret med seneste nyt om efterdønningerne i kølvandet på folketingsvalget 2026.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Paranoid dictators tend to end their rule in bunkers. What was it now Trump is building under his ballroom at the WH?🤔 edition.cnn.com/2026/05/04/e...
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Unsettled Kremlin tightens security around Putin amid assassinations and coup fears, intel report says | CNN
The Kremlin has dramatically increased the personal security around President Vladimir Putin, installing surveillance systems in the homes of close staffers as part of new measures prompted by a wave ...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So, that’s how ‘alternative facts’ are made🤔 I guess…
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
More geopolitical gasligthing from the master of disaster www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...
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Trump tells the UK and other countries 'go get your own oil' from Strait of Hormuz - live updates
The US president tells nations who are now unable to get jet fuel
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Det blev “grumset”, som Niels Helveg ville ha’ sagt #dkpol www.dr.dk/tjenester/ki...
dr.dk
LIVE Danskerne har stemt til folketingsvalget
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Så handlede det vist alligevel om “nogen” og ikke om “noget” #dkpol politiken.dk/danmark/poli...
politiken.dk
Løkke smider bombe i valgkampens slutspurt: Jeg vil være kongelig undersøger
Løkke mener, at han er manden, der kan samle Mette Frederiksen og Troels Lund Poulsen igen. Efter en valgkamp, hvor de i den grad har talt sig væk fra hinanden.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just as his ideas on democracy are more needed than ever bsky.app/profile/spie...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Well, of course… autocrats work together edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
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Analysis: How Trump’s Iran exposure could hand Putin a lottery win | CNN Politics
If Vladimir Putin’s quarter-century of expansionist rule has taught the West anything, it’s that the Russian president shouldn’t be taken at his word.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
True autocrats do not go to war. They just use the military to kill people in other countries www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Sounds familiar’: how the US-Israeli war in Iran parallels Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Both campaigns have been framed differently at different times, with dubious claims of defensive action and a curious reluctance to label it war
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
‘Tax the rich’ Danish PM says before upcoming election. Time will tell, if it is more than just classic socialdemocratic strategy: campaign to the left, rule from the center. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...
dr.dk
Socialdemokratiet går til valg på formueskat for de rigeste
Socialdemokratiet vil også fjerne ejendomsværdiskatten på nogle boliger.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Rubio tells Europe US wants renewed alliance – but on Trump’s terms
Secretary of state calls the US ‘a child of Europe’ and urges continent to back a new world order
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Rubio’s message beneath the sweettalk - it’s still ‘our way or the highway’ edition.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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Live updates: Marco Rubio speaks at Munich Security Conference | CNN
More than 50 members of Congress are attending the Munich Security Conference, which runs through Sunday. Follow for live updates.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📣New chapter out now, written with Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, on polycrisis, new beginnings and cosmopolitanism (think we need a little bit of that these days) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Phoenix Arises From the Ashes: Polycrisis and New Beginnings in Business Ethics and Stakeholder Management
This chapter discusses the concept of polycrisis, which oscillates between global disaster and cosmopolitan hope, and offers a critical lens for examining contemporary challenges in business ethics an...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The call needs to be bipartisan… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Can Trump be removed under the 25th Amendment after threats to Greenland?
President Donald Trump’s recent behaviour provokes calls from Democrats for him to be relieved of his duties
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This sounds very much like what the 🇺🇸-🇪🇺 relations have experienced the last couple of days. Forget 4d chess of ‘a very stable genius,’. When will the Maga-bubble burst and genuin talk of 25th amendment start? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life...
psychologytoday.com
What Happens When Narcissists Age
They may not value social interaction as their peers do.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Will Greenland be Trump’s Waterloo? Making it a clear EU/ transatlantic issue he might have overplayed his hand www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Faisal Islam: Trump's Greenland threats to allies are without parallel
The US president's latest threats will baffle the leaders of allied nations, writes the BBC's economics editor.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Will Greenland be Trump’s price for security guarantees in Ukraine? Maybe highly speculative, but nothing is too outrageous for the current president. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/w...
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Trump’s Venezuela raid plunges Greenland and the Western military alliance into uncertainty | CNN
Amid increasing concerns that Greenland, a vast Arctic territory ruled by Denmark, is still being coveted by the Trump administration, the Danish prime minister has delivered a stark warning to the Wh...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The only regime change in 🇻🇪 (according to Trump) will be replacement of representatives from China, Iran, and Russia with US oil industry. Rest will be ‘business as usual’. That is NOT freedom for the people of 🇻🇪
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Maduro is a criminal, but indirectly this is also bad news for Taiwan edition.cnn.com/2026/01/03/w...
edition.cnn.com
After major US strike on Caracas, journalist Mary Mena reports live from the Venezuelan capital | CNN
Reporting live from Caracas, journalist Mary Mena describes the aftermath of a large-scale US strike on the Venezuelan capital. The developments follow a dramatic claim by US President Donald Trump th...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Jeg har begået denne ‘jule’-kronik i Politiken. Nok mere et resultat af forfatterens hånd end forskerens😉 Glædelig jul til alle 🎄🎅🏻
politiken.dk
I 1893 blev der begået et hemmeligt folkemord ... på de danske nisser
Den danske stat nægter i dag fortsat ethvert kendskab til affæren og afviser vedvarende, troværdige udsagn om de faktiske og grusomme begivenheder, der fandt sted juledag i 1893: Udrensningen af de da...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🇺🇸 is now doing ‘geopolitical gasligthing’. Case number 1: the national security strategy www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Trump wants to export the MAGA revolution to Europe. This is NOT in the interest of Europe or of the Europeans Trump claims he wants to help. See new videopost from @anderspucknielsen.dk youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4
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New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Putins talking points copy-pasted. Trump is still shaping an excuse to abandon 🇺🇦, framing 🇪🇺 as a foe and 🇷🇺 as a friend. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
politico.com
Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: ‘I think they’re weak’
In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America's allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Bedre sent end aldrig, …men stadig FOR sent af @dkuni.bsky.social politiken.dk/del/_LkTZ7AF...
politiken.dk
Nu reagerer universiteterne: »Jeg synes, at RUC ikke er blevet behandlet fair«
Uddannelse | Politikens dækning af uddannelsesområdet med temaer som Studeliv og Højskoleliv samt klummer om livet som studerende, reformer og meget andet.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Happy and honoured to see that our special issue article on crisis and expertise is among the top ten cited in Policy & Politics, this year🙂 Free access to the article this month!
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Enten misinformerer statsministeren eller også har hun ikke styr på regeringens egen universitetspolitik #dkpol politiken.dk/del/fY1b78AE...
politiken.dk
Mette Frederiksen i hårdt angreb på RUC: »Prøv at sige sætningen. Folk tror jo, det er løgn«
Muslimer i Danmark svigter deres ansvar, når de ikke gør mere for at forhindre negativ social kontrol og voldelige unge, mener Mette Frederiksen, der også langer ud efter RUC.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
🇺🇸 hybrid warfare in Greenland. Some in the 🇩🇰 political establishment even speculate that decline of 🇩🇰 brands like Ørsted and Novo Nordisk in US markets is linked to the 🇺🇸strategy. Maybe too speculative, but worth following in the comming weeks euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
euobserver.com
US spies stoked separatism in Greenland, Denmark says
Denmark has accused US agents of trying to foment separatism in Greenland, reigniting fears over the territory's future.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
You cannot gain credit for making ‘negotiations’ a political reality show, while people are dying in 🇺🇦 It is just cynical and sheer hypocrisy edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
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Analysis: Why Trump deserves credit for his Ukraine push — and why it may all fall apart | CNN Politics
It was the best day Ukraine has had in a very long time. But it’s still hard to see how the war unleashed by Russia’s brutal invasion ends any time soon.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
‘Art of the f*ck-up’… historic humiliation for a US president. But yes, it could had gone a lot worse for 🇺🇦 www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump and Putin Alaska summit: Five takeaways from the meeting
With no ceasefire and an invitation to Moscow, the US and Russia's meeting yields more questions than answers.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We will see how it ends on Friday. However, I think a true realist (with respect for international principles as well of US interests) would put real pressure on Russia.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
For a brief moment (since the NATO summit) some liberals dreamed that some of ‘the old ways’ was still working. Trump even sounded like a critic of Putin. But it was just sound, just an illusion… edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/e...
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Trump-Putin summit in Alaska resembles a slow defeat for Ukraine | CNN
Location matters, former real estate mogul US President Donald Trump said. Moments later he announced Alaska, a place sold by Russia to the United States 158 years ago for $7.2 million, would be where...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
When you have been feeding the animal for many years, you cannot suddenly ask it to die www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Trump urges MAGA base to stop attacking administration over Epstein investigation
US President Donald Trump urged his 'MAGA' political base on Saturday to stop attacking his administration over files related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after a memo made public last…
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Will next step be CRISPR as an instrument of social policy?
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Eugenics is back, in a privatized Big tech-supported version m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBg...
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New IVF tech lets parents choose traits, and discard the rest
YouTube video by CNN
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A proper authoritarian regime must of course have their own Gulag amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/...
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What we know about ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Florida’s new controversial migrant detention facility | CNN
Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enf...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Godt at se at @magtudredningen2.bsky.social sætter mere fokus på policyprofessionelle. Her er et link til dengang begrebet blev introduceret på dansk i et temanummer i Politica i 2020 politica.dk/fileadmin/po...
politica.dk
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
And another step in 🇺🇸 step-by-step take over www.wsj.com/world/greenl...
wsj.com
Exclusive | U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland
The push underscores the seriousness of President Trump’s intent to acquire the island from Denmark.
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Another step in 🇺🇸 step-by-step take over of Greenland edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/p...
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Pentagon considers shifting Greenland to US Northern Command, sparking concerns over Trump’s ambitions for the territory | CNN Politics
Trump administration officials are weighing a change that would shift responsibility for US security interests in Greenland to the military command that oversees America’s homeland defense, underscori...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📣New article: justification of digital transformation. Plz share dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @jobernha.bsky.social @sgenner.bskye.social @hannahruschemeier.bsky.social @jeah.bsky.social @moltke.bsky.social @moltke.bsky.social @slosarski.bsky.social @slosarski.bsky.social @heidimaurer.bsky.social
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Governmental Justification of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector | Digital Government: Research and Practice
This article presents an explorative study of how governments in EU countries publicly justify digital transformation in the public sector. By using Denmark as a case of a digital frontrunner among European Union member states, we focus on a new field of ...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📣 New article out now on justification of public digitalization, the Danish experiences #digitalization #DigitalTransformation #DigitalCitizenship #DigitalInclusion link.growkudos.com/1f7rupreku8
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Governmental Justification of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
Denmark is a digital frontrunner. This status has come through decades of depoliticization of public digital transformation and by legitimizing digital change with an overall ideology of efficiency. T...
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We now know there is no ‘deep state’, instead there are deeply dumb politicians
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
• Dismantle public agencies✅ • Insult close allies & befriend dictators✅ • Empower MAGA machine on behalf of free press✅ • Replace heads of security with incompetent loyalists✅ • Crash the global economy & make Corporate America bend the knee✅ • hm… what am I gonna do today?.... Golf, anyone?
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a baby in a suit and tie has an american flag pin on his jacket
ALT: a baby in a suit and tie has an american flag pin on his jacket
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Vance played a ‘false tune’ full of nonsense during his speech at Pituffik. 🇺🇸 pressure remains disrespectful and high, but is not (yet) being increased www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip
Denmark's prime minister said the visit by the US VP and other top officials  showed a "lack of respect".
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Peter Aagaard @peteraagaard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
According to the media the visit is ‘scaled down’, but it would be be wrong to see a visit at Pituffik as a retreat by the US. The convential MAGA playbook is to enforce rhetorical attacts. Vance will probably do so during his visit at Pituffik, not least to suck up to his primary audience: Trump.
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