On the classic RISK gameboard, if you wanted to protect North America, Greenland and Venezuela look very important.

The President and his cabinet are people without advanced degrees or experience in foreign policy and military strategy. The geopolitical experts in the DOD, intel agencies, and State Department have all be forced out. In the pre-cable, pre-video game, and pre-social media era, the current cabinet members probably played RISK as a kids.

Is it possible that the people running our country know so little about the modern world that a 1957 board game is the foundation of US foreign policy?

Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation, using the fewest assumptions, is usually the most likely to be correct when comparing competing hypotheses.