Why Denmark accepted the Greenland defence arrangement

Why did Denmark accept a 1951 Greenland arrangement that produced little direct lease or tax income?

Denmark prioritized Greenlanders and alliance defence, while US protection of Greenland freed Danish forces to concentrate on NATO's European front.

The panel rejects judging the arrangement only by lease revenue or tax income. Greenland's self-government and the welfare of people within the Danish realm are presented as more important than extracting direct profit from the territory. In Cold War defence terms, the United States agreed to garrison Greenland against Soviet access while Denmark concentrated armored and other forces in Europe. Later Danish proposals to reinforce Greenland could therefore be answered by US requests to keep those troops in Eastern European tripwire formations. The exchange uses the agreement to show how alliance bargains divide scarce forces: one partner protects a strategic location so another can contribute where the coalition considers it more valuable.