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By Rajan Menon

Mr. Menon is a professor emeritus of international relations at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York.

President Trump’s hopes to annex Greenland appear to be at an end. On Wednesday, he pulled back from the prospect of military invasion and abandoned the threat of tariffs to secure the territory. Instead, he wrote on Truth Social, there is a “framework” agreement in place, the details of which are still to come to light. The crisis, for now, seems to be averted.

That is a relief. But the aggression cannot be forgotten. In an extraordinary conceit, Mr. Trump said he’d like to buy the island, an autonomous territory of Denmark,........

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