The U.S. Erases Greenland Base Commander for Attempting ‘to Subvert Trump’s Agenda’

The doctrine of distraction: what the firing reveals about Trump’s Arctic power play

Colonel Susannah Meyers posing for photos beside Vice President JD Vance and his wife in the subzero sunlight outside the 821st Pituffik Space Base Group — with Trump’s shadow looming large (created by author)

It’s mid-April and snow is still falling across Sweden’s northern Lapland. Not a gentle flurry — this is the heavy, dragging kind. The kind that often arrives during this time of the year to remind us that winter is our mother language. Spring birds go quiet. Birch trees hold their breath. And everything slows down beneath a blinding blanket of white, as if nature itself has come to silence those haunting thoughts you just can’t seem to hold back.

From here, not far from the Arctic Circle, I can almost trace the air’s path toward the high plateau of northern Greenland — where, two weeks ago, posed for in the subzero sunlight outside the .

They smiled, and he even rested his hand on her back, like it meant something. Like it wasn’t another display for the , hungry for symbols of conquest and control. And like they didn’t already know exactly how this story would end.

Because now, it has.