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Nah, it's because our armed forces are a joke and have been since like 1870. Denmark has never been a great power and our elites seem satisfied with just being leeches on the Americans. The current government's obsession with "strengthening the army" is just a way to ensure that the SocDems don't get wallopped because everything has gotten worse and Mette Frederiksen is a lunatic who's eyeing a job at NATO. Fortunately for us, she doesn't seem to be itching for another war the way Anders Fogh Rasmussen did, but she is still hellbent on proving her dedication to the Neoliberal circus.
North Sea Empire and Kalmar Union kinda were, depend of your definition of "great power"
The Kalmar Union sort of was, even if it never did much other than massacre some Swedish nobles. The massacre was for stupid reasons rather than based ones, and it led to the disintegration of the union.