Back From Greenland, Gov. Landry Says US Can Right Wrong of Its Post-Cold War Departure

The special envoy said policies to draw Greenland closer to the United States could be enacted in a six- to eight-month time frame.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry in Washington on May 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry says the United States made a big mistake several decades ago.

“Right after the Cold War ended, the United States’ peace dividends basically failed Greenland, because we basically depopulated the bases,” Landry, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, told The Epoch Times on May 21 after his first visit to the autonomous Danish territory.