Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, also sees oil as a symptom, not the cause, but her outlook is more stark. She sees it as an example of Trump’s desire “to exert U.S. military, economic, and political will everywhere in the Western Hemisphere without impediment.”
Kavanagh also believes the Trump administration will now be emboldened to use military force against other countries, pointing to Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico.
“I think Canada’s sort of at the bottom of the list … but not out of the woods,” she said.
Yet, despite Miller’s rhetoric, others doubt that there would be any appetite in Washington for a military takeover of Greenland. Kavanagh is skeptical that the U.S. would use force in the Danish territory.
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