3. Denmark is now just a little land and needs "security" from a big land.
4. Danish
culture for a long time has been passive, authoritarian faithful, conflict-adverse
and indifferent. The word for indifference/I don't care in Danish is ligeglad. In 1984, I wrote a commentary
for the daily newspaper Information.
It started as an underground resistance medium during WWII. Upon victory, it
took over the building previously occupied by the Nazi newspaper "Fatherland". My article was entitled,
"Indifference is the most typical Danish word." Today, that is still the case,
even more so. One example is Information's
move to the right.
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RON RIDENOUR is a US-born author and journalist, anti-war and civil rights activist since 1961. After eight years in Cuba (1988-96) working for national media, he now lives in Denmark. Here are a few of his dozen books: "Yankee Sandinistas: Interviews with North Americans Living and Working in the New Nicaragua,"and "Backfire: CIA's Biggest Burn". His most recent books are, "The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert" and "Winding Brook Stories" are available at Amazon and Lulu. His other work can be found at ronridenour.com; ronrorama|AT|gmail.com">ronrorama@gmail.com
[i] Denmark doesn't even have a large profiteering weapons industry, not yet. Most of its profits from war come not from fabricating finished weaponry but from supplying advanced radar and communication apparatuses for satellites, for war jets, such as Lockheed Martin's F-35s, measurements of heat, dust, sounds, and drones. Before Denmark began its warring era, there were less than a handful of such firms. Since 1996, the Defense and Aerospace industry (FAD) has grown to 73 members (2014). Its exports in 2008 (latest figures provided) were ca. $3 billion. It has recently reorganized its production from delivery of components to entire systems for such warring giants as Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northern Grumman, as well as NASA. It also sells to the Balkans since Yugoslavia was crushed, and to Baltic States, pressing Russia on its western borders.
Den Danske Forsvarsindustri - Forsvarsindustri; see also Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond - CovertAction Magazine for information on Denmark's largest weapons firm, Terma, and the Defense Intelligence Service (FE).
[ii] Mercenary, because if Denmark has not declared war or is not under attack, no soldier is forced to take on foreign war missions without volunteering and do so with greater pay. Denmark's war in Iraq began in March 2003 as George Bush invaded the cradle of civilization, murdering hundreds of thousands of human beings while destroying and stealing much of its ancient and modern works. Tjalve pointed out that the so-called "red" social democratic government was even more willing to continuing warring in Iraq-this time against IS instead of the defeated forces of Saddam Hussein-than were the majority of US Americans then. The 2014 mission was not war, officially, but part of the "anti-terror" mission against IS (ISIS).
[iii] One must bear in mind that the combined military forces of US/NATO/EU/Israel are ten-fold what Russia has. The US has about 800 military bases outside 4,154 on its soil; NATO has 30; Russia has a dozen, and China one. See William Blum's books, especially Rogue State and Killing Hope. William Blum. Blum has documented that since WWII the US has attempted to overthrow 50 governments, most of them democratically elected and been successful about half the time. See also my book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, chapter 18. Amazon.com: The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert eBook: Ridenour, Ron: Kindle Store
[iv] See more on the F-35 purchase facilitated by Denmark's military intelligence working for Lockheed Martin. Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond - CovertAction Magazine
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