The Greenland deal is a classic Donald Triumph. In return for ceasing to make outrageous threats to annex the territory of America’s ally, he has accepted the status quo and claimed a great victory.
Furthermore, there is not yet a text of the agreement, which Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, called merely the “prospect of a good agreement”, although presumably there will be a document that will be signed at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in the next few days. It then has to be ratified by the Danish parliament.
