Trump Shifts From Greenland Annexation Push to Security Deal Framework

What began as an assertion of territorial ambition has quietly become something more durable: a negotiation. President Trump, who spent months insisting Greenland should belong to the United States, is now pursuing a security agreement with Denmark — a shift that trades the symbolism of ownership for the substance of strategic access. The Arctic, warming and contested, does not wait for perfect solutions, and this pivot suggests that even the boldest ambitions must eventually reckon with the shape of the possible.