Copenhagen issues a warning regarding Washington’s growing hostility toward European nations.
In an unprecedented move for one of Washington’s staunchest European partners, Denmark’s military intelligence agency has officially categorized the United States as a security threat, marking a significant deterioration in transatlantic trust.
Released on Wednesday, the Danish Defense Intelligence Service’s 2025 outlook cautions that Washington is increasingly placing its own agenda above all else, leveraging its technological and economic dominance as instruments of coercion, even against its own allies.
The report explicitly states that the U.S. creates pressure through economic means, such as threats of heavy tariffs, and is no longer ruling out military aggression against friendly nations to achieve its goals—a clear allusion to Washington’s previous attempts to acquire Greenland from Denmark.
This assessment represents one of the starkest alerts regarding the U.S. from a European agency to date. It follows a similar move in October by Dutch intelligence, which suspended certain information exchanges with American counterparts due to concerns over political meddling and human rights violations.
Denmark’s alarm reflects a broader European anxiety as the U.S. aggressively utilizes industrial policy on the world stage; it also illuminates a growing ideological rift, cited against a backdrop of the U.S. National Security Strategy predicting Europe faces the “prospect of civilizational erasure” within two decades.
Additionally, the Danish assessment highlights the unpredictability of future relations between Washington and Beijing, noting that China’s rapid ascent has chipped away at America’s historic status as the solitary global superpower.
As Washington and Beijing compete for alliances, influence, and essential resources, the U.S. has notably shifted its focus to its immediate geographic periphery—including the Arctic—in an effort to curb Chinese expansion.
The report notes that America’s intensifying pivot toward the Pacific casts doubt on its continued role as Europe’s primary security protector, creating a situation where European nations must urgently enhance their armaments and cooperation to deter Russian aggression independently.
In the agency’s direst projection, Western nations could face a scenario within a few years where they must simultaneously contend with Russia launching regional conflicts in the Baltic Sea and China initiating military action in the Taiwan Strait.