Overview
- The Danish Defence Intelligence Service’s 2025 assessment lists the United States as a risk for the first time.
- The report says Washington leverages economic and technological strength toward allies and questions the U.S. role as Europe’s security guarantor.
- It highlights rising great-power competition in the Arctic and warns that U.S. interest in Greenland is increasing espionage and cyber threats to the Kingdom of Denmark.
- Danish analysts state the U.S. uses tariff threats to enforce its will and, in their assessment, no longer rules out military force even against allies.
- Despite the new concern, Denmark identifies Russia and China as the principal threats and has set up a “night watch” to track U.S. and presidential statements on Denmark and Greenland.