In the long arc of great power rivalry, the Arctic has quietly become the next contested frontier — and Greenland, long peripheral to global affairs, now finds itself at its center. The United States, under a security agreement negotiated with Denmark following sustained pressure from the Trump administration, will open two new military bases on the island and reactivate a Cold War-era facility that had slept for decades. The move is a direct answer to expanding Russian and Chinese presence in the region, where melting ice is opening new shipping lanes and exposing new resources. Yet it is the