The closing interpretation dismisses a pre-arranged British-Danish conspiracy as unrealistic. Danish decision-makers appear to have been calculating how to survive between France and Britain. Britain likewise wanted to avoid opening a larger war in northern waters and the Baltic. Limited resistance, surrender, and restraint can be explained as parallel strategic pragmatism without assuming collusion.
Notable Point · 21:02-21:40
Pragmatic accommodation without a secret bargain
The closing interpretation rejects collusion and instead sees British and Danish leaders separately limiting a confrontation neither wanted to widen.