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Denmark is Europe’s number 3 spender for war in Ukraine, after UK and Germany.
Danish newspapers boast about it today. Because Denmark with 6 million people has a much smaller economy than Germany with 80 million and the UK with 60 million, Denmark is, relative to GDP, probably Europe‘s number One spender on Ukraine.
To prove their loyalty to the US to the point of Denmark’s own self-destruction, Denmark’s politicians just gave all Denmark’s artillery including ammunition to Ukraine. Lock, stock, and barrel. Imagine that! Denmark has no artillery left. None. And with no equipment for training and exercises, and endless delivery times for new NATO artillery equipment and ammunition, Denmark may have self-destroyed its artillery capability for 5-10 years. For the next 5-10 years, Denmark’s army will be without effective artillery – and as importance of artillery has been demonstrated by the war in Ukraine, without artillery, Denmark’s army will be defenseless in any big war (which Denmark’s own politicians shout up about coming).
Denmark’s politicians are in reality sacrificing Denmark’s own security just to further their personal careers and please the USA.
Denmark a Leader in the War of Lies and Propaganda
On the 2 year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, I checked newspapers in Denmark, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, and of course the US.
No other of the mentioned countries comes even close to the warmongering intensity of the Ukraine war reporting of Denmark’s two leading newspapers.
Denmark’s two leading newspapers “Berlingske Tidende” and “Politiken” are filled to the brim with “experts” and “comments” that Ukraine can go on in the war, that Denmark as part of Europe is about to be overrun by Russia and so on. A demonstration at the Ukrainian embassy to “make Russia pay” is covered as if it was a million people public demonstration – until you down in the text see that only 500 persons (probably all Ukrainian citizens) participated. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also gives a long interview to “Berlingske Tidende” dedicated to support for Ukraine’s continuation of its lost fight. PM Mette Frederiksen’s choice of outlet for her war propaganda is a message in itself. As a Social Democrat leader, it would have been the logical choice for PM Mette Frederiksen to give an interview with Denmark’s biggest “Liberal” newspaper “Politiken” – but having a defense propagandistic intention with the interview, PM Mette Frederiksen instead chose to give her interview with “Berlingske Tidende”, the newspaper which is Denmark’s traditionally conservative supporter of military and defense. Louder than most even EU leaders, PM Mette Frederiksen claims that “Ukraine can still win”, claims that all of the EU is in mortal danger – basically, Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen tells the Danes, that they have to give up social benefits to pay for an immense militarization of Denmark.
The level of Denmark’s war-cheering and denial of reality just as NATO is losing its Ukraine war is stunning – but should come as no surprise.
Denmark the Loyal Vassal
Denmark “delivered” the highest number of dead soldiers relative to its population size in Afghanistan. Denmark participates in the US electronic spying on European allies, incl. Germany. When the US wanted to shelter one of Saddam’s generals, Denmark supplied a village for the purpose. When the CIA wanted a host country for the television activity of an “Arab independence” terror group operating in Iran, Denmark delivered the perfect cover. Denmark has all the underwater surveillance around the island of Bornholm, where the Nordstream was sabotaged close by. Any crab or hering moving is monitored – Denmark was complicit. The critic French analyst Emmanuel Todd regards Denmark as the 6th members of America’s “Five Eyes” spy network.
In spite of being pulled in its strings by Washington’s neoconservative circles, Denmark with its Social Democratic image manages to uphold the lie of its morality image. In the “Global South”, many are still fooled by Denmark’s “do-good” image. But make no mistake.
Denmark is one of the most important and 200% controlled US assets. Not because of Denmark’s size, but precisely because of Denmark’s “moral” image and above all the widely unrecognized role Denmark plays for the USA.
This goes back 80 years when the US wanted an offensive missile base to fire nuclear rockets on Russia (then the Soviet Union), Denmark gladly supplied the territory of Greenland for the purpose – in spite of Denmark officially always having declared itself “nuclear-free”. So much for Denmark’s “talk peace – act war” hypocrisy.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
