The US also listed as a threat due to its growing interest in Greenland which is vital to America’s national security
Danish intelligence services have accused the US of using its economic power to “assert its will” and threatening military force against its allies.
The comments, made in its annual assessment released this week, mark the first time that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) has listed the US as a threat to the country. Denmark, the report warns, is “facing more and more serious threats and security policy challenges than in many years”.
The report said that the US is “now using its economic and technological strength as a means of power, including against allies and partners”.
Competition between superpowers Russia, China and the US, it said, is “increasingly taking place in the Arctic” which is growing in strategic importance amid increasing tensions between Russia and the west. This, it notes, poses a specific threat to Denmark, which used to rule Greenland as a colony and continues to control its foreign and security policy.
