{"id":198811,"date":"2026-02-01T02:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/danish-veterans-protest-outside-us-embassy-over-trump-administrations-greenland-plans-abc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:27:07","slug":"danish-veterans-protest-outside-us-embassy-over-trump-administrations-greenland-plans-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/danish-veterans-protest-outside-us-embassy-over-trump-administrations-greenland-plans-abc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish veterans protest outside US Embassy over Trump administration's Greenland plans – ABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of Danish veterans have staged a silent protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen<\/span>
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — <\/span>Hundreds of Danish<\/a> veterans \u2014 many of whom fought alongside U.S. troops \u2014 and thousands of supporters staged a silent protest Saturday outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen in response to the Trump administration's threats to take over Greenland<\/a> and Trump's belittling of their combat contributions.
Veterans first gathered at Copenhagen\u2019s Kastellet historic fortress, which includes a public park and places still used by the Danish military, and then marched to the nearby U.S. Embassy, carrying several large Danish flags.
\u201cDenmark has always stood side by side with the USA \u2014 and we have showed up in the world\u2019s crisis zones when the USA has asked us to. We feel let down and ridiculed by the Trump Administration, which is deliberately disregarding Denmark\u2019s combat side by side with the USA,\u201d Danish Veterans & Veteran Support, the organizers of the protest said in a statement.
\u201cWords cannot describe how much it hurts us that Denmark\u2019s contributions and sacrifices in the fight for democracy, peace and freedom are being forgotten in the White House,\u201d it said.
Before observing several minutes of silence, attendees ceremoniously planted 52 Danish flags outside the U.S. Embassy. The flags bore the names of the 52 Danish servicemen who lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As the servicemen\u2019s names were read out, some attendees shed a tear.
Danish veterans are furious<\/a> at how the White House rhetoric disregards the right to self-determination of Greenland, a territory of NATO<\/a> ally Denmark. They also strongly object to Trump\u2019s claim that Denmark is incapable of protecting the West\u2019s security interests in the Arctic.
\u201cThey have a feeling that they\u2019ve been betrayed. And of course, they are angered by this. They deployed. They fought with the Americans. They fought with the Brits. They fought together. They bled together," said Carsten Rasmussen, a 65-year-old Danish veteran and president of the Danish Veterans Association. \u201cAnd as you have heard here in front of the American embassy today, 52 of them never returned.\u201d
\u201cWe\u2019ve never needed them, we have never really asked anything of them,\u201d Trump said of non-U.S. troops in an interview with Fox Business Network in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. \u201cYou know, they\u2019ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that, and they did \u2014 they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.\u201d
S\u00f8ren Knudsen, a 65-year-old Danish veteran, said many soldiers lost a limb during their service. \u201cWe have some who are suffering from PTSD or the like. And we have a lot of veterans who are luckily not suffering from anything, but they are still feeling offended by the statements.\u201d He added: \u201dHence, very importantly, we wanted to give this message.\u201d
Forty-four Danish soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, the highest per capita death toll among coalition forces. Eight more died in Iraq.
Tensions were further inflamed Tuesday when 44 Danish flags \u2014 one for every Danish soldier killed in Afghanistan \u2014 that had been placed in front of the embassy were removed by embassy staff.
Rasmussen said that action likely added \u201ca few thousand people\u201d to Saturday\u2019s silent protest.
The State Department later said that, as a general rule, guard staff remove items left behind following demonstrations and other \u201clegitimate exercises of free speech." The flags were returned to those who left them, it said.
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