Are the European leaders playing the long game?

[Ocelot II]

5. Trump is as dumb as a box of hammers. I'm sure someone has told him repeatedly

that the existing treaty with Denmark/Greenland has always given the US pretty much carte blanche over the use and operation of the military base and anything else needed for national security purposes in the Arctic. But he's obsessed with owning things because he's a stupid, greedy little man. So on behalf of NATO (but not on behalf of Denmark/Greenland, over which NATO has no territorial authority), Rutte managed some diplomatic sleight-of-hand to make him think they had a "deal" that at some future date would somehow transfer control of Greenland to the US. But it's going to take time, of course. So now Europe just has to hold it all together until Trump is gone, however that might happen.