Trump called owning Greenland "an absolute necessity"; did not settle for less, gets its security permanently, free

Permanent is not a long span of years. Permanent is the end of the calendar, and permanent is the word carried home from the United Nations on Tuesday — "permanent control over security, and all other needs," and an "Infinite Life" agreement besides. You are waiting for the price. There is none. Not a dollar, not a base traded back, not a tariff lifted. A bargain wants consideration, some small thing moving the other way to make it a bargain and not a gift, and Tuesday's signing supplies nothing of the sort. Mette Frederiksen says the agreement recognises the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland. The sovereignty, you see, and the territorial integrity. The deed stays where it was. Announced on the eighteenth. On the nineteenth the reporting set beside it a US firm's purchase of the island's rare-earth mine; by the twentieth it was "largely a rebranding of the status quo to claim a win" ... and by Tuesday it was exactly what he wanted all along. In January 2025, weeks after the announcement that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Donald Trump Jr. made a personal visit. Frederiksen said then that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders." It does. Washington has the security, and all other needs, at no charge, for ever.