There is a current “scandal” of sorts where the former minister of justice, and our until very recent chief of military intelligence were suggested arranged and arrested for treason. So far the details of the case are kept from the public, and our secret police even had a talk with all major editors beforehand, but what is know is that it is in part about these people revealing that there was a secret agreement with the NSA to keep surveillance on all Danish citizens in corporation with their Danish counterparts. Only revealed because of the Snowden leaks.

So you are sort of right, that our leadership trade away privacy. Similar to how they secretly allowed America to house Nuclear weapons at the Thule base doing the Cold War, and, how we typically participate in American lead wars in some form or another, as well as a range of other things.

You call it naive, but it’s quite frankly the reality of being a tiny western country. In a sense you can think of many European countries as you would vassal states to the Roman Empire. It’s obviously more complicated than that, and the comparison is a little daft, but in essence you dance when America tells you to Dance. What happened with Trump wasn’t America electing emperor Nero or Caligula, and then sort of doing business as usual, it was a sign that America might not keep on trucking.