Doug Bandow
Denmark is a shrimp in the European ocean. A pleasant place to live, it is a geopolitical nullity. No one much cares what the Danes think about the world because, they can’t do much to change it.
Of course, not unless they gain control of another nation’s military, most notably, that of the United States, the biggest whale around. The last NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, hailed from Denmark, which has 17,200 citizens under arms.
That position did not allow him to deploy the American military. But it did give him unusual influence over U.S. policy. (Rasmussen’s successor, Jens Stoltenberg, …read more
Source: Cato Institute