President-elect Donald Trump is not kidding when it comes to purchasing Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal.

That is the word from former Trump national security advisor Robert O’Brien when he appeared on the Fox News show “Sunday Morning Futures” and spoke to host Jason Chaffetz who was in for Maria Bartiromo.

“Jason, as you know, the Panama Canal is one of the engineering achievements of the last millennia. And we built it, we paid for it, and we operated it for many years. And then, in a tremendous act of generosity, which was probably foolish, Jimmy Carter gave the canal back to the Panamanians. But it wasn’t just a free gift. There are conditions, that the canal remain neutral,” said OBrien.

“And so what the Panamanians have done — and, generally, we love the Panamanians. They’re good people. They’re friends of America. But they gave the ports on both ends of the canal to the Chinese. And even The New York Times is saying, which has been an apologist for China for years — is saying that the Chinese are committing espionage, or they could shut down the canal without military efforts just using these Hong Kong companies that control the canal,” the former national security advisor said.

He went on to speak about how the Panamanians have raised prices on American ships and given much of the control of the canal to the Chinese who are using the funds to build their own military.

“So, Donald Trump is the first person since Ronald Reagan — and there are so many parallels between Trump and Reagan. I talked about this when I was a national security adviser, on peace through strength. Trump saw what’s happening to the canal, and he says, we’re not going to put up with it anymore. And the Panamanians can get with the program, or we may have to take the canal back,” O’Brien continued.

As for Greenland, the expert said it was strategically important because “as the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway that maybe even cuts down on the usage of the Panama Canal.”

O’Brien said that the Russians and Chinese were “all over the Arctic” and that Denmark had an obligation to defend Greenland, but if they could not, “President Trump said, if you don’t defend Greenland, we will buy it, and we will defend it. But we’re not going to defend it for free and let you — and not develop Greenland and not extract the minerals and oil and resources of Greenland.”

He said if the Danes cannot defend Greenland or pay the United States to defend it, “they can let us buy Greenland from, and Greenland can become part of Alaska. I mean, the native people in Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska, and we will make it a part of Alaska.”