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yaesu

(8,872 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 01:20 PM Thursday

They are right, fascist USA is a threat to every democracy: Denmark has labeled the U.S. as a potential security concern

Denmark has labeled the U.S. as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the U.S.

The report, compiled by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS), warns that the U.S. “uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”

That assessment forms part of the service’s wider analysis that “great powers increasingly prioritize their own interests and use force to achieve their goals.”

CNN has reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington for comment. https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/denmark-sees-us-as-potential-security-concern/

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They are right, fascist USA is a threat to every democracy: Denmark has labeled the U.S. as a potential security concern (Original Post) yaesu Thursday OP
The U.S. is a security concern thanks to Trump and the GOP. (To include the criminal 6 of SCOTUS) Solly Mack Thursday #1
I've wondered how long before we got here. slightlv Thursday #2
I can only imagine popsdenver Thursday #11
Can'T Be Said news will not cover this. twodogsbarking Thursday #3
Not the commercial-republican-owned and run media. BComplex Thursday #4
The ARD and ZDF as well DFW Thursday #5
I'm not sure what those services are. BComplex Thursday #6
German and French national media DFW Thursday #8
Well of course it is fujiyamasan Thursday #7
We're right back to the imperialism of the 1800s. cer7711 Thursday #9
Agreed popsdenver Thursday #10
Grateful they are waking up blue_jay Thursday #12

Solly Mack

(96,257 posts)
1. The U.S. is a security concern thanks to Trump and the GOP. (To include the criminal 6 of SCOTUS)
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:24 PM
Thursday

slightlv

(7,279 posts)
2. I've wondered how long before we got here.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:29 PM
Thursday

Understand, I don't blame any country for doing this. In fact, I agree that the United States, as it stands right now, is an absolute threat to democracies everywhere. We are 100% in the autocratic, dictatorial worldview of China and an agent for Russia. Who wouldn't declare us a danger? I'm waiting for the "Terrorist State" declaration by Venz or another country we've attacked. When will this Twilight Zone episode end, please?! Either that, or bring back the cornfield!

popsdenver

(1,366 posts)
11. I can only imagine
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:56 PM
Thursday

that all the NATO countries have been meeting continuously and covertly since Trump was re-elected, and having watched the Putin/Ukraine situation get worse.....The Republicans have been cutting aid to Ukraine for a year to make Trump's "master" happy.

BComplex

(9,710 posts)
4. Not the commercial-republican-owned and run media.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:45 PM
Thursday

Luckily, we are beginning to have other reliable sources, and the BBC can usually be counted on to tell a little more truthful version of the news.

DFW

(59,635 posts)
5. The ARD and ZDF as well
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:13 PM
Thursday

DPA and AFP, too. I’m sure some of them have English language services, too.

DFW

(59,635 posts)
8. German and French national media
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:27 PM
Thursday

ARD—sort of a national German “Channel One.” Allgemeine Rundfunk Deutschlands

ZDF—channel Two TV: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

DPA—Deutsche Presse Agentur, literally German Press Agency

AFP—Agence France Presse, French version of the DPA.

There are others, of course, but those are the ones I listen to most over here. DPA and AFP are print agencies. They are, sadly, NOT immune to being influenced by American media. The Germans were far more lenient with Trump than the French, who give no one a break, least of all themselves. The Germans have since come around though. Trump’s free rides are a thing of the past.

fujiyamasan

(1,083 posts)
7. Well of course it is
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:21 PM
Thursday

I mean the US is literally trying to coerce or otherwise threaten to take over a part of their country. In some ways it’s a lot like another big country next to Europe. I forgot the name of it. I think it starts with an ‘R’.

cer7711

(601 posts)
9. We're right back to the imperialism of the 1800s.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:45 PM
Thursday

It's all about zones of influence and the might-makes-right exercise of military power again.

What's different this time is that the great powers have nukes.

And all it will take is one little miscalculation by someone, somewhere....

popsdenver

(1,366 posts)
10. Agreed
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:52 PM
Thursday

but just wait.................you ain't seen nothing yet, until Trump and Republicans start shutting down our military bases in NATO countries........AND THAT will help Putin walk around with a permanent 24/7 woody, without taking Viagara......

blue_jay

(176 posts)
12. Grateful they are waking up
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 04:24 PM
Thursday

my elder siblings have been telling me for years that we are/were on the brink of fascism. Sad that they were right. Most terrible things that happen are foreseen by some (especially the ones paying attention), ignored by many, and then people are shocked when they happen. Will we ever be able to stop history from repeating itself?

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