Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the primary time in an annual report launched by one among its intelligence companies, providing extra proof of the more and more fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
The report, compiled by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS), warns that the US “uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”
That evaluation varieties a part of the service’s wider evaluation that “great powers increasingly prioritize their own interests and use force to achieve their goals.”
NCS has reached out to the US Embassy in Copenhagen and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington for remark.
Apart from its warning referring to the US, the report largely focuses on strategic threats posed by Russia and China, as nicely as instability led to by China’s rise and the ensuing international shift in energy.
It factors out that the “military threat from Russia to NATO will increase,” a concern magnified for the Danes since “there is uncertainty about the role of the United States as a guarantor of Europe’s security.”
Denmark’s usually pleasant relationship with its NATO ally grew strained earlier this yr when US President Donald Trump expressed an curiosity in taking management of Greenland, an autonomous, resource-rich, strategically important Arctic island that’s legally a part of the Danish kingdom.
While Trump has not revisited that concept for months, it signaled his willingness to emphasize the US’s relationship with its European companions following a long time of shut cooperation for the reason that finish of World War II.
That relationship is as soon as once more beneath scrutiny as the differing strategic priorities of the US and Europe have been uncovered within the current Ukrainian peace talks and, most dramatically, within the nationwide security technique launched Friday by the Trump administration, which adopted an unprecedented confrontational posture towards Europe.
And for Denmark, the threats posed by Russia and the US are intertwined. The report argues that “Russia will try to exploit the US desire for a quick end to the (Ukraine) war to sow division between the US and Europe.”