US, Denmark, Greenland reach Arctic security pact after Trump's annexation threats

After months of escalating threats to annex Greenland by force, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland's government have arrived at an Arctic security agreement — one that each party is already describing in strikingly different terms. Trump calls it a historic assertion of permanent American control; Copenhagen and Nuuk call it a reaffirmation of sovereignty. In the space between those two readings lies the true shape of the deal, which will only become clear when its text is made public and its fate decided by parliaments. What is certain is that the Arctic's strategic weight — its minera