Trump Settles for Security Deal on Greenland After Failed Annexation Push

In a significant retreat from one of his most audacious foreign policy ambitions, President Trump signed a security agreement with Denmark this week, stepping back from his long-stated goal of acquiring Greenland as American territory. What began as a bold assertion of sovereign ambition has resolved, as such ambitions often do, into the quieter language of cooperation and compromise. The Arctic remains contested ground — not by deed or annexation, but by the slower, more durable instruments of alliance and strategic coordination.