Twenty years ago, I spent a couple of weeks in Afghanistan with Britain’s Royal Marines. Operating largely under British command in Helmand was a Danish contingent made up largely of special forces. The Marines had nothing but praise for their Danish allies, who were in some of the toughest firefights and who suffered the highest per capita rate of fatalities after the United States.

Why were they there at all? What made Denmark send 750 men to those remote mountains? There was only one explanation. Danes had felt the atrocity of 9/11 as an attack on the entire West. When the U.S. called for help, the no-nonsense Norsemen did not hesitate.

To see the Danish military mocked and disparaged online by MAGA supporters is disgusting. To watch leading politicians and commentators who know better obsequiously backing President Donald Trump’s aggressive claim to Danish territory is degrading.

The apologists are, as usual, proffering reasons that the president himself has not presented involving missile trajectories and........

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