Henrik Bager, a Danish soldier who served with Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, said US president Donald Trump’s vow to take Greenland from Denmark and his insults about Denmark’s military were “a punch to the gut”.
Rasmus Jarlov, a voluble centre-right member of the Danish parliament and the chair of its defence committee, said “we know full well that the Americans can destroy us”, but should Trump, who has not ruled out military force, attack a fellow Nato ally, “of course we will fight back”.
In the next breath, Jarlov said it was “absolutely so weird to be uttering something like that”.
Casper O Jensen, a Danish pollster who has lived in the United States and…