# Analysis: Trump got almost everything but annexation in Greenland deal

https://mins.news/en/video/65248

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-19 04:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gE1N6VxRo

> Richard Weitz, a senior fellow at the NATO Defense College and security analyst with Wikistrat, says Trump supporters are celebrating the new US-Denmark Greenland security deal as a diplomatic win. But it falls well short of Trump’s earlier ambition to take full control of the territory, fitting a pattern of backing down after proposing annexation elsewhere and facing local opposition.

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