President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States.

Yes, the president-elect really is serious about expanding the U.S. But what he mostly wants is to bully small countries that won’t fight back.

US President-elect Donald Trump has not ruled out using the military to gain control of the Panama Canal or Greenland after being asked various times at an extraordinary press conference on Tuesday. When challenged by a journalist whether he could assure the world that he would not use military or economic force,

The prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the U.S. — yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

To borrow an ancient Greek metaphor, the ship of state has reversed course under President-elect Donald Trump. In a joint news conference with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Friday, Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede insisted that the people of Greenland desire independence,