Putin also wants a summit with Trump, which appears to be on track to happen this year. A meeting with the U.S. president would signal an end to the period of international isolation Russia entered after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

President-elect Donald Trump said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Danish territory Greenland or the Panama Canal, which is operated by the Panamanian government.

Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?” Sanger: “Can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty?

History will reward Trump for halting the downward spiral in international relations, but it can only be done with strength and clear vision, not by following the lead of dictators.

"Regarding the Greenland-Panama issue, I feel confident in excluding ... dismissed speculation that Trump would stop supporting Ukraine and try to force it to accept unfavourable terms to end ...

As to possible revision of US policy under Trump on the war in Ukraine, Meloni said ... He also criticized the high tariffs for Panama Canal transit and argued that the 1999 transfer of ...

Germany as a whole isn’t currently seen as a driving force for peace policy in Europe, and honestly that pains me,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told POLITICO.

Panama has reportedly submitted a formal letter to the U.N. rejecting Trump's statement about reclaiming the canal. The country's President José Raúl Mulino said in the letter, dated January 20, that the canal "is and will continue to be Panama's," the New York Times reported.

Some observers have approvingly claimed that the second Trump administration heralds a realist revival in American foreign policy. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Robert O’Brien, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration, eagerly promised “the return of realism with a Jacksonian flavor.”

Trump essentially had a “19th-century philosophy in line with populist president Andrew Jackson”, feeling a comfort with threatening the use of force to achieve national interests.

President Donald Trump has vowed to be a peacemaker in his new term, but his aggressive early actions threaten to alienate US friends.