Kangerlussuaq

The runway that made the occupation sustainable, and the staging field for the Iceland strike.

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wire wire record 19 Jan 2026 18:00

Marines land in Greenland

Ospreys touch down at Kangerlussuaq at 17:30 UTC and an amphibious insertion takes the port at Nuuk. Danish Arctic Command offers no lethal resistance under cabinet orders to document rather than die.

Greenland Nuuk Kangerlussuaq 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade USS Harry S. Truman Denmark Mette Frederiksen Nuuk, Greenland

the podium Address to the nation, the Oval Office 19 Jan 2026 21:00

Address on Greenland

My fellow Americans. This evening, at my direction, United States Marines secured the airfields and the harbour of Greenland. There was no resistance. Not one shot was fired and not one person was hurt, on either side, and I want the country to hear that first…

Greenland Nuuk Kangerlussuaq 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade address