The Ukrainian president was quick to urge Ottawa and Washington to keep the dialogue going to work out their differences, but three times referred to the ongoing trade war and the associated rhetoric as “dangerous.”
While an American invasion is not imminent, the annexation rhetoric and the way the trade war has unfolded should force Canadians to reconsider their assumptions.
What happens when you live beside a vastly more powerful neighbour that starts to treat your sovereignty as conditional?
“What’s driving this isn’t rational economic thinking. What’s driving this is an irrational belief that Canada is not a real nation,” said Matt Schmidt, an associate professor and national security expert at the University of New Haven in Connecticut and former instructor at the U.S. Army War College.
There are similarities but important differences between the way the U.S. treats Canada and the way Russia behaves toward Ukraine. Russia, Schmidt argues, is more organized and focused about what it wants out of Ukraine.
Read Murray Brewster’s article at the CBC News