That view doesn’t hold up against the facts. Denmark is legally blocked from acting alone but is actively working to dismantle the very system it’s accused of ignoring.
Under international law, the Danish Straits are a global highway. Denmark cannot legally stop ships in “transit passage” without a clear safety or environmental threat. This isn’t a Danish policy; it’s a binding maritime rule that Russia’s “shadow fleet” exploits.
Far from being a passive observer, Denmark is taking concrete action. Just this month, Denmark helped lead a coalition of 14 nations to coordinate new measures against the shadow fleet in the Baltic and North Seas. At home, it has cracked down hard, introducing legislation to raise prison sentences for sanctions violations to as high as eight years—one of the toughest stances in the EU.
The problem isn’t Danish inaction. It’s the sophisticated, global evasion network Russia has built, which no single nation can defeat on its own.
Refugees are a group of people that’s very heterogenous. They don’t have one common way of treating Denmark. Except for the ‘asking Denmark for asylum’ of course.
Denmark does treat refugees a certain way, if by Denmark we mean their government, and not Danes in general. The government has certain policies which define their treatment. Basically they’re trying to win the race to the bottom: ‘treating them worse than other countries do’, hoping refugees will go to other countries instead. It’s a shortsighted tactic because now we here in the Netherlands as well as in other countries, are joining the race to the bottom. Which means collectively we are losing our humanity, while still largely getting equal amounts of refugees at our borders. Unless of course you’re willing treat people so poorly, that even a warzone is more acceptable. But what in the world are we defending if we are willing to lose all human decency over it?
Denmark is literally the best country
*disclaimer; the specifics of your socioeconomic circumstance may differ wildly from my super privileged nordic “ive only ever lived in 3 of what is considered the top 5 countries of the world” background; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FEKEjpTzB0Q&pp=ygUYd2VsY29tZSB0byB0aGUgZ29vZCBsaWZl
I like Denmark but they’re the sole reason Russia gets to circumvent the sanctions since 2022. Don’t forget that.
That view doesn’t hold up against the facts. Denmark is legally blocked from acting alone but is actively working to dismantle the very system it’s accused of ignoring.
Under international law, the Danish Straits are a global highway. Denmark cannot legally stop ships in “transit passage” without a clear safety or environmental threat. This isn’t a Danish policy; it’s a binding maritime rule that Russia’s “shadow fleet” exploits.
Far from being a passive observer, Denmark is taking concrete action. Just this month, Denmark helped lead a coalition of 14 nations to coordinate new measures against the shadow fleet in the Baltic and North Seas. At home, it has cracked down hard, introducing legislation to raise prison sentences for sanctions violations to as high as eight years—one of the toughest stances in the EU.
The problem isn’t Danish inaction. It’s the sophisticated, global evasion network Russia has built, which no single nation can defeat on its own.
Just wait until you find out how they treat refugees…
Touché, but in my defense, all countries suck, and mostly just serve the 1%, so the bar wasn’t high to begin with
Just wait until you find out how refugees treat the very people who pay to put food on their tables and a roof over their heads.
aka “I have no empathy for other people” and “I only read right-wing media”.
Refugees are a group of people that’s very heterogenous. They don’t have one common way of treating Denmark. Except for the ‘asking Denmark for asylum’ of course.
Denmark does treat refugees a certain way, if by Denmark we mean their government, and not Danes in general. The government has certain policies which define their treatment. Basically they’re trying to win the race to the bottom: ‘treating them worse than other countries do’, hoping refugees will go to other countries instead. It’s a shortsighted tactic because now we here in the Netherlands as well as in other countries, are joining the race to the bottom. Which means collectively we are losing our humanity, while still largely getting equal amounts of refugees at our borders. Unless of course you’re willing treat people so poorly, that even a warzone is more acceptable. But what in the world are we defending if we are willing to lose all human decency over it?
Wrong again.
Sure, daddy “all refugees are ungrateful criminals” cool
Oh, so you can generalize, but I can’t? Sure, atro “we treat all refugees as shit” city.
Maybe there’s a correlation