Interview with Henry Farrell, a professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, who recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled “Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It:” 

‘…Clearly there has been some real sense that there is a coalition which is engaging against this measure, and that coalition is sufficiently credible that the United States has something to worry about… It really does look like a climbdown disguised as a declaration of enormous victory. The fact that this is happening through Rutte and through NATO rather than, for example, through direct negotiations with Denmark, suggests that what is going to happen is that we’re going to get some kind of agreement on security in the Arctic region, which everybody is more or less on the same page on and Trump will declare this a glorious victory over Greenland and then move on.…’ (via Vox)