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The USA are running Nato. To compare minor countries, that still managed to have colonial cruelties, with the USSR, to show that current Russia is more dangerous, doesn't feel right.
There was a deal that European countries will allow USA to remain an uncontested military hegemon by making sure to not put resources into armaments. We saved a ton of money, and could use that money for nicer things. At the same time USA's military hegemony gained it influence that it was able to translate into money. Both sides won. And, as a part of that arrangement, the USA was indeed running NATO.
Now we know that if there will ever be a war where NATO is needed, USA will not come for help. NATO is no longer the USA project it once was. Since we know that USA won't help, we will not do a shit to help if they want to go for another war against Afghanistan or Iraq or do other similar horrors.
You say that comparing them to USSR although even they did colonial cruelties is... Weird? How does one country's colonialism become okay through others managing to do the same in a lesser extent?
How is the Russia not more dangerous than Germany or Denmark is?
As US government bonds which financed the US war machine.
Nato is to keep the Germans in and Russia out. Defence has always been secondary.
It does not. Those countries alone are already comparable to USSR while France, Britain and the US would come on top.
Denmark is pushing the internet surveillance. You know the colonial times, the cold war genocides that we ignore. If it is fascist knives out against China, it's Denmark that made the end of democracy possible.
Germany is the US tool to reign Europe. Europe is doing the same to its population that Russia did, it just looks friendlier.