There Are ‘Dark, Dark Days Ahead’ — A Warning From a Canadian Realist
Heidi Siegmund Cuda interviews Canadian geopolitical analyst Dr Michael MacKay about Donald Trump, Russia and the era of naked imperialism that is now coming our way
“Canada must face the new reality that the United States is a powerful enemy threatening annexation. For the first time in its history as a French colony, a British colony and a self-governing Dominion, Canada must prepare to defend the nation on its own – like Ukraine.”
Dr Michael MacKay
Whenever I need a pick-me-up, I always seek out Dr Michael MacKay’s Twitter feed. The geopolitical analyst from Ontario, Canada, has a way of cutting through the noise to get to the heart of things.
Likely, this is due to the time he spent working in Ukraine, as a lecturer and election observer. He has documented Russia’s war in Ukraine daily since 2014 on Twitter, now X, and now, he’s documenting America’s threats to Canada and beyond.
Mackay, who received a PhD from the London School of Economics, told me: “Canada must face the new reality that the United States is a powerful enemy threatening annexation. For the first time in its history as a French colony, a British colony and a self-governing Dominion, Canada must prepare to defend the nation on its own – like Ukraine.”
These are heartbreaking words, but it’s been a week of heartbreak. America’s adventurism in Venezuela, threats to Greenland, and Canada, its domestic brownshirts shooting people in the street, and its exiting of 66 global organizations has made a country once loved by so many now feared and even reviled.
The muti-layered Russian operation to install Donald Trump as President has been successful — if by success we mean destroying democratic institutions quickly and denigrating our allies.
As an American, I have loved and respected Canada my entire life — comforted by having a stable and friendly northern neighbor.
Many of my friends now live in Canada, among them former Yale professors and authors Marci Shore, her husband Timothy Snyder, and fascism scholar Jason Stanley.
In this Q&A with Michael MacKay, he expresses both fear and resolve for how to deal with America’s accelerating aggression.
