Trump signed a trilateral security pact with Greenland and Denmark at the United Nations, swapping wild annexation threats for real military bases and adversary exclusion zones.
Washington used threats of trade tariffs and invasion to extract a Greenland base agreement, securing Arctic infrastructure while damaging long-term alliance trust across the Atlantic.
The United States, Denmark, and Greenland agreed to a military pact that preserves formal sovereignty but yields strategic autonomy to Washington to block rivals.