It’s neither fear mongering nor a self fulfilling prophecy if you’re simply stating facts. It’s not the Danish PMs fault, that Russia mistakes itself for some kind of empire
"I think we are in the most difficult and dangerous situation since the second world war." is, by her own wording, decidedly not a fact. It's pointless hyperbole and headline-hunting that compromises (arguably deliberately so) the reader's perception of the world. A world that does not make rational decisions but decisions solely based on its perception of itself.And it was her active decision to make that statement.
Is there any point in "stating" severeness of the situation, if you cannot measure it?There's no scale here, Frederiksen didn't sit down to develop some metric for situation severeness and then came to the conclusion "Oh, this rates at 1.2 Cuban Missile crises, better give the alarm", she just blurted out a soundbite.