Donald Trump’s imperialist designs on Greenland, Canada and Panama often sound like the ramblings of a chaos agent who views geopolitics and global trade like a real estate shark chasing new leads.

Donald Trump will move back into the White House in eight days. The President-elect has been busy during his transition picking who he wants to be in his cabinet and working to unite Republicans behind his agenda.

But not everyone is sure that President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and Greenland and reclaiming the Panama Canal is driven by a deeper strategy.