Are the European leaders playing the long game?

[Ocelot II]

3. I'm sure they are. They are much better at this game than Trump.

(But then, so are my cats.). Mark Rutte, the Sec Gen of NATO, is said to be a very smooth, clever diplomat, as was his predecessor; and what Trump doesn't understand but which Rutte does, is that NATO has no authority to negotiate anything on behalf of an individual country. Rutte can't and wouldn't have made any promises about the ownership or control of Greenland. But he probably blew a lot of flattering smoke up Trump's ass that made him believe there would be "a deal" at some future time for US control of Greenland which NATO would work out with Denmark for Trump's benefit. And because Trump is stupid and completely susceptible to flattery, he thinks there's a deal, or a concept of a deal. For now NATO seems to be safe, and they'll just string Trump along until he's out of office or dead, whichever comes first.