U.S.–Europe Relations

Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service said in its annual assessment, published Wednesday, that the United States under President Trump is using economic power to assert its will and is no longer ruling out the use of military force even against allies, amid intensifying great‑power competition in the Arctic. The report highlights rising strategic focus on the Arctic, Trump’s interest in Greenland, Russia’s plans to strengthen polar military capabilities, and recent U.S. lethal maritime strikes, and links the assessment to the administration’s new national security strategy depicting European allies as weak.