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One possibility is that they just throw Trump some bone and he gets distracted and the whole thing kind of blows over until it's brought back up some time in the future (because of Russia fearmongering or whatever). They will point to the current affair and use it as an excuse to just hand over Greenland without much internal opposition.
Right now? This whole thing is too useful for generating nationalist sentiments in Europe. Many European politicians probably want to milk this in some way, and use it as an excuse to increase military spending (which could even be one of the concessions made into pleasing Trump). I guess, it would be something like a variation good cop bad cop?
I've seen all the libs I keep tabs on blaming Russia for the whole Greenland thing, they're usually very good little stooges, believing whatever their masters in Washington want them to, regardless of if they are European or American or Australian, so it does seem like they're trying to use this to build anti-Russian nationalism, at the moment it seems to be "Putin is tricking Trump into wanting Greenland" and it will probably become "The US had to take Greenland to keep it safe from Russia."
They might certainly try, but this is already a defeated nationalism. Russia will wreck Ukraine this year - they already have - and it will be a huge disaster for Europe. One for the history books for sure.
At the same time, Trump might take Greenland, there's certainly no stopping him if he really went for it - sanctions, troops, nukes, won't matter. Europe will get a nationalism born out of defeat, with half the world laughing at them for years (not that they haven't earned it!).
This can't be good.
No it won't be good. Defeated nationalisms in colonial countries are always a breeding ground for fascism.