"Bannon “has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine” to frame what needs to happen next. The comparison is not casual. In Bannon’s worldview, Ukraine was a liberal, Western-aligned country sitting on strategic resources at Russia’s doorstep. He watched Putin use separatist agitation in the Donbas to lay the groundwork for a larger annexation. Canada, with the world’s third-largest oil reserves and an Arctic frontier of enormous strategic value, fits the same template."


