On January 8, at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, US President-elect Donald Trump made a number of shocking statements in just one hour and escalated his rhetoric on sovereignty issues with Canada and other countries. He called for Canada to be admitted as part of the United States through economic means, and did not rule out the use of force to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland. He also demanded that NATO countries increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP. He also vowed that if Hamas di...