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The English were at War with Napoleon and Denmark was neutral. British leaders feared that Denmark might either ally themselves with Napoleon or provide him with ships from their well equipped fleet. The English decided on a preemptive attack on Denmark and military forces were ordered to Denmark. When they arrived, they were ordered to bombard Copenhagen and force the Danes to surrender. When this happened, the British seized the Danish ships and simply took them as war prizes. The issues of the morality and wisdom of preemptive attacks, as with the Americans in the Iraq war, was thoroughly debated but the government view prevailed to the shame of most Englishmen. Addington was not PM at the time but a backbencher in Parliament.
The President had used Sweden as an example of a nation where liberal Muslim immigration policy led to violent terror attacks. The difficulty was that there had been no Terrorist attacke in Sweden despite their relatively liberal Muslim immigration policy. Trump had a penchant for exaggerations, hyperbole, and often just making up false material. This was a case of the latter. Trump supporters explained that liberal Muslim immigration generally causes domestic terrorirst attacks and Sweden was an exception that proves the rule. Critics should focus on the principle and not on the particular example.. Critics reject buth the principle and the false example where the President has an entire staff of speech writers and fact checkers and his falshoods are deliberate and his style of debate and argument where he lies to better convince the American people, most of whom do not have the time and often not the resorces to see if their president was deceiving them.
