Might is right.

That sums up US President Donald J. Trump’s vision of a 21st-century world order.

Barely a month in office, Mr. Trump has not wasted time creating building blocks for his worldview.

Mr. Trump’s efforts to end fighting in Ukraine, coupled with his territorial ambitions in Gaza, Greenland, Panama, and Canada, have put the ‘might is right’ principle on steroids. So has the president’s unilateral renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.