US, Denmark, Greenland sign Arctic security deal, ending months of tensions

At the United Nations in New York, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland signed a trilateral Arctic security agreement that had seemed unthinkable just months before — the culmination of eighteen turbulent months in which American ambitions over Greenland had strained alliances and unsettled a people uncertain of their future. The deal expands Washington's military footprint across three Greenlandic sites while enshrining, in explicit legal language, both Danish sovereignty and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination. It is an agreement built on the oldest diplomatic logic: th