Danish Intelligence discovers USA as threat - 50 years too late

Yesterday, I spoke with someone I had never met before. And what do you talk about with someone whose views you don't know without risking offending them? Always something that everyone knows and that we all agree on. Instead of the weather, he mentioned today's big news that FE has updated its threat assessment and, for the first time, mentioned the United States as one of the factors that could pose a threat to Denmark's security situation. Everyone hates Trump, and everyone knows that he threatens not only Denmark and Greenland specifically, but also the EU and the entire green transition, with the risk that the world will perish due to climate change and loss of biodiversity. Everyone is talking about it, politicians, experts and also among ordinary members of the population. Nothing new there. And now we have the new threat assessment, which mentions the US as a threat. Honestly, what is the news from the country's leading experts? The purpose of an intelligence service is to provide information that the military and politicians would not normally have access to. We have known for decades that the United States poses a potential threat, but it is only now that the Danish Security and Intelligence Service has discovered that there may be a problem. This is a glaring example of incompetence! The rest of us have known this since the 1960s! I am not saying that I supported the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but it is obvious that the United States could also pose a risk. The US deliberately lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, both publicly and through the intelligence services, and they got our then right-wing extremist government under Anders Fogh Rasmussen to lead Denmark into a 20-year war that we ended up losing. Among the 1.8 million people who, according to Brown University's ‘Costs of War’, died as a result of the wars, there were in fact 43 Danes. This is serious, and has the FE not assessed the risk of this happening again throughout this period? The Danish Defence Intelligence Service is an organisation based on spying on Danes and passing on information to the CIA, which in return sends back general and international information that serves the interests of the United States. Klaus Hjort Frederiksen and Lars Finsen were about to be charged with treason because they openly said what everyone knew, that the FE was spying on Danes and our European allies for the benefit of the CIA. but the cases were naturally dropped because there was nothing new or secret about the fact that this was the case. Everyone knew it, and therefore it was not a revelation of any secrets. Since World War II, politicians have placed ALL Danish security policy eggs in the US basket, without assessing the risk that neither Denmark nor Europe spread the risk or had a Plan B. I am not saying that we should not have been a member of NATO, or that the US has always been our enemy, but it is naive to close our eyes to the obvious risk that the US has abused our trust and thus poses a potential threat. Of course, it poses a security threat to Denmark that we have an intelligence service that bases its information solely on a power that, for example, deliberately lied to and misled the Danish Parliament. How could politicians have overlooked this? I myself remember back in 1975, when we were considering the purchase of F16s, there was discussion in Europe and also in Denmark about whether it would not be better for European security to buy Swedish or French aircraft, precisely because everyone was aware of the risk associated with relying so heavily on the United States. Just listen to this: that was 50 years ago! For 50 years, all of us have known that there is a security risk in that the United States, in addition to being our ally, also poses a potential threat. We had the same discussion when we recently had to replace the F16 with the F35 aircraft. Wasn't the purpose of a threat assessment by the FE to guide politicians so that they could continuously minimise the risk from possible threats, i.e. BEFORE they arise? For 80 years, we have ignored the potential risk, thereby jeopardising the entire European security and the possibility of foreign policy self-determination, because we in Europe do not have a military that can operate independently of the United States. After Trump's first term, and after his re-election, and increasingly throughout the year, even a blind guinea fowl could not have overlooked a possible threat from the US, and what use is a threat assessment and an intelligence service that only now, in December 2025, is able to do for the first time what we all knew already?