Last Wednesday the Danish foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen to his office to complain that the United States is running a covert operation in Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Danish kingdom. According to DR, Denmark’s public broadcaster, the goal of the operation is to infiltrate Greenland’s society […]
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