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Lawfare Daily: Trump, Greenland, and the International Order

Molly Roberts, Ariane Tabatabai, John Drennan, Jen Patja
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 7:00 AM
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The crisis over President Trump's threats to annex Greenland appears to be over for now. But the second- and third-order consequences continue to unfold as NATO allies try to manage their relationship with the United States. In this episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Roberts, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Ariane Tabatabai, and Egmont Institute Visiting Fellow John Drennan give an overview of the crisis and discuss its implications for the United States and NATO, as well as talk though how U.S. adversaries like Russia and China see the family feud.

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Molly Roberts

Molly Roberts

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Molly Roberts is a senior editor at Lawfare. She was previously a member of the editorial board at The Washington Post, where she covered technology, legal affairs and more, as well as wrote columns about everything from cryptocurrency grift and graft to panda diplomacy at the National Zoo.
Ariane Tabatabai

Ariane Tabatabai

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Dr. Ariane Tabatabai is a Public Service Fellow at Lawfare. Previously, she served in a number of roles in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, including most recently as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training. She is the author of No Conquest, No Defeat and the co-author of Triple Axis, as well as a number of peer-reviewed articles.
John Drennan

John Drennan

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John Drennan is a Visiting Fellow in the Europe in the World Programme at Egmont – The Royal Institute for International Relations, in Brussels, Belgium, supported by a Robert A. Belfer International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Transatlantic Dialogue Center, headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. He previously served in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Ukraine Country Director and has worked at RAND Corporation.
Jen Patja

Jen Patja

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Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
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