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From the BBC:

US fires Greenland military base chief for 'undermining' Vance

"The US military's Space Operations Command said Colonel Susannah Meyers had been removed from her duties at Pituffik Space Base due to a "loss of confidence in her ability to lead."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-fires-greenland-military-base-chief-for-undermining-vance/ar-AA1CJodU

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There’s something really “off” about Greenland (which may be why there’s controversy over it). We’re always told Greenland is totally perpetually covered in thick ice, but nothing adjacent in its latitude is covered like that. Nuuk gets into the 50’s Fahrenheit during the summer (up to 70 at times), but just North it’s totally perpetually iced? Iceland is on the same latitude (64 degrees), and has mild summers; also has lots of geothermal, but Greenland is dead under the ice?

There are only a few places on Earth where whole world agrees that people are super restricted from going to; Antarctica and the interior of Greenland are two. Also weird is that, just west of Greenland (on Devon Island, Canadian Arctic (which is not covered in ice)), NASA has an outpost (in the Haughton Crater) doing “Mars” representation exploration.

Additionally, the interior of Greenland is one big valley that’s below sea level. Strange that it could perpetually maintain infinite ice coverage over the entire interior.

It’s all very odd… and odd that there is so much long-standing interest and wrangling over Greenland. It’s almost like there is something they purposely aren’t telling the public; I don’t know what it is, but Greenland sure has a lot of ‘things that make you go hmmmm…”.

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