{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-paikin-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fmcmillan-_Ghh_I0I","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Margaret MacMillan: Are We Headed Back to the WWI Era Again?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/fbe3b508-5290-460c-a814-7c5aecefd7d3/7fcb1948-40cd-4c0b-9d97-d7265162e69d/4.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5ce5e5e0-3e45-4f52-9501-287aba5d69e3\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Margaret MacMillan: Are We Headed Back to the WWI Era Again?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In our “Best of The Paikin Podcast,” historian Margaret MacMillan joins Steve to discuss the history we are living through, how it reminds her of the zero-sum period before the First World War, how seriously Canada should take Trump’s 51st state rhetoric, and the history of American attempts to invade Canada.\n\nThey then discuss Canada’s defence spending, how Trump is unlike any president in American history, how he reminds her of Louis XIV or Henry VIII, the history of middle or smaller powers holding off greater powers, and the cracks growing in the MAGA movement."}