The MeidasTouch Podcast - Canada PM Destroys Trump in Speech Before His Troops

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas highlights Prime Minister Carney’s powerful speech at a military base in Latvia where he sent a powerful message about Canada’s military readiness. Get 50% off your one-month trial at https://drinktrade.com/MEIDAS Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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is going to lead the way to stop Soviet aggression as embodied in Vladimir Putin, as embodied in dictators across the world. Prime Minister Carney says the days of peace, the days of tranquility, they're done. We are now in a world of brute force and we need to meet that force with greater force and Canada is going to lead the way. I want you to watch Prime Minister Carney at this Undagi military base. in Latvia, listen to some of his powerful words right here. Let's play the clip.

Because if we're going to deter Russian aggression in Latvia and the Baltics across Europe, if we're going to secure a lasting and more durable peace and security, if we're going to defend and advance our values of freedom of democracy and peace, Canada must do so from a position of strength. In short, if we want a safer world, we need a stronger Canada. And so it's the service of the women and men behind me and those that they represent. It's their service and sacrifice that makes Canada strong. As we confront the challenges facing the world at this hinged moment in history, Canada's

leadership will be measured not only by the strength of our values, but also the value of our strength. This is the strength on the very front line in the struggle between authoritarianism and democracy between freedom and fear. And in no small part because of their service, your service and sacrifice, this is a struggle that we will win because we are stronger together. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Merci so. Now folks, this is part of a broader trip featuring Prime Minister Carney and his Canadian ministers. They went to the Scandinavian region. They were in Finland.

They were in Sweden. They will be going in Europe to see Fredvick Mertz very soon in Germany. Prime Minister Carney, as you know, over the weekend was with President Zelensky in Ukraine to celebrate their Independence Day. And actually, it's also the 34 years of independence of Latvia from the Soviet. Soviet aggression as well. Prime Minister Carney knows his history well. He knows that he who does not remember and study history is bound to repeat it. And here, Prime Minister Carney talks about the importance of this speech at this military base, at this moment in time. Here, play this

clip. Okay. Well, it is good morning, everyone. Still morning. It feels like it could be the afternoon after everything that we have seen. This is an absolutely extraordinary deployment, an extraordinary group of women and men, and it is my pleasure to greet the members of the Canadian Armed Forces and our NATO allies. It's an honor. It's a tremendous honor for me,

and the Minister of National Defense of Canada, to be with you here today at the Adaji base. The minister and I have just come from a trip where we've been in Riga, in Berlin, in Warsaw, and Kyiv. And it's fitting, we've been building up to this moment. It's fitting to conclude our trip here at the Adaji base, standing with so many courageous men and women

who defend our values, our freedom, and our security every day. every day. This, as we've seen this morning, is much more than a military base. It's an anchor of service, of cooperation, a foundation of security. A foundation of a security in a world that's more divided in a world where we must once again contend with hard power, contested borders, and authoritarian aggression. words from Prime Minister Corney. And as I watch this, I think to myself, this is what a real leader looks like. And I also think how weak, how small, how tiny Donald Trump has made America look and has made himself look and everything associated with America while the world is moving on

with leaders, strong leaders, like Prime Minister Carney of Canada play this clip. Those serving in uniforms and 14 uniforms at this base represent over a dozen allied nations. Allies who train together in advanced combat and strategy. Allies who work together seamlessly. This is one of the impressive accomplishments of this base, Colonel, working together seamlessly to preserve peace and security in last. California, collective security in the Baltics, in Europe, and across NATO. Thank you.

Thank you for the duty and devotion that you demonstrate every day. When the minister and I were in Kyiv on Sunday for Ukrainian Independence Day, it would be difficult for us to overstate the enormous gratitude that was conveyed to us. by the Ukrainian people for Canada's contributions and the contributions of our allies to their freedom and independence. Canada's contribution over the years includes more than 45,000 Ukrainian security service members

who've been trained by Canadian soldiers as part of Operation Unifier. And we'll see some of those soldiers, some of the officer corps later today. Ukrainians know that Canada and our allies stand with them. They know that their cause is our cause, that we stand with them for freedom, for democracy and independence. And so it was in 1991 when Canada became the first G7 nation to recognize Latvia's independence.

The anniversary, the 34 anniversary was yesterday. We recognize that independence after Latvia had courageously reclaimed independence after decades of Soviet rule. And so it was when Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Canada, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, launched Operation Unifier, sending hundreds of Canadian armed forces personnel to Ukraine to train Ukrainian troops to fight Russian aggression. And in April of that year, 2014, more than 100 members of the Canadian Armed Forces were deployed here to Latvia to begin Operation Reassurance.

Today it gives a sense of what's been built on that core. Three years later, as Russia's threats to the Baltics intensified, so 2017-2018, Canada stepped up to lead the NATO battle group here at the Adagi base. and added 450 more of our troops. And today, this battle group has grown into a major multinational brigade, with Canada leading more than 3,500 soldiers from those 14 nations, working together, soldiers working together to deter and defend against Russian aggression on NATO's eastern flank and to fortify our shared defense by air, by land, and sea.

Since its inception, the need for Operation Reassurance, unfortunately, the need for Operation Reassurance has only intensified. In Kiev on Sunday, I recalled decades ago when President Ronald Reagan led a peace effort with the Russians, he adopted the slogan, Trust, but Verify. But Vladimir Putin is not Mikhail Gorbachev. Putin seeks darkness, not Glasnose. He seeks empire, not perestroika. We can't trust, but verify with Putin. We must deter and fortify.

Deter new aggression and fortify our shared defense. And that's why yesterday the minister and I announced the extension of Canada's Operation Reassurance for another three years. This renewal will increase capabilities in Latvia to reassure, reinforce our collective defense, and to bolster our cooperative security and strengthen that NATO deterrence. The extension of Operation Reassurance is part of our broader mission to rebuild, rearm, and reinvest in the Canadian Armed Forces.

This June, along with our NATO allies, all of whom are represented, well, many of whom are represented here today, Along with our NATO allies, we committed to NATO's new defense pledge of investing 5% of our annual GDP in the next decade. For Canada, this will represent a quadrupling of our defense expenditures in cash terms by the end of this decade. We're making this year alone additional investments of $9 billion, and we're working with urgency and determination to increase our defense capabilities to meet the threats that are growing in the world. You know I'm a cold brew person year-round. I used to rely on those grocery store concentrates or spend six bucks at a cafe thinking it was more convenient.

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M-E-I-D-A-S. Another powerful moment here from Prime Minister Carney. Let's play it. To support the women and men of our armed forces, we're making major investments in our military capacities. In June, we struck a new EU-Canada security and defense partnership leading to Canada's participation in the European Safe Initiative and the relaunch, or the launch, rather, of the rearm Europe plan. By doing so, we'll be able to partner. with our European allies to invest in new drones and new ships and new aircraft and new munitions more quickly and more economically. And we're also back home creating a new defense procurement agency so we can build at pace so the women and men of the armed

forces have cutting-edge military equipment that they need and deserve. These investments will modernize our military and they'll fortify our leadership role in the world and folks this comes on the heels of more attacks by russia against ukraine russia has only intensified its killings its genocide of innocent ukrainians following the humiliating meeting with donald trump in alaska where putin and sergey lavrov who wore the u ssr shirt mocked and humiliated Donald Trump in the United States, as Donald Trump made American soldiers bow down literally to Putin on their knees and roll out the red carpet as Donald Trump zigzagged and couldn't walk in a straight line and said, thank you, my friend, thank you, my friend. It's just so great

to see you, my friend. And then thereafter, Donald Trump gave up any ideas of requesting a ceasefire, of requesting trilateral meetings between Putin and Zelensky, of sanctioning Putin, of demanding security guarantees. Putin got everything he wanted and more. The United States looked like utter cowards. Donald Trump gave up every, even the semblance of acting like he cares. Now you have Russia making deals for putting diamonds in the United States and talking to Exxon. And Ukraine is getting hit by ballistic missiles. There were missile strikes across Ukraine in Kiev, in Sumi, in other areas as well. Zelensky wrote,

restoration efforts are now underway in the Sumi region after Russian drone strikes. Nearly 100 UAVs targeted overnight these various regions and specifically civilian infrastructure. Unfortunately, energy facilities were damaged. The attack cost power outages in Pultovas, Sumi, the Cherneve regions,

leaving more than 100,000 households without electricity. All emergency services are working on the ground to restore power as quickly as possible. In Kharkiv region, a drone struck an area and in Kershan, a residential apartment building. There are injured. All necessary assistance is being provided. The Russians continue the war and ignore the world's call to stop the killings and destruction. New steps are needed to increase pressure on Russia to stop the attacks and to ensure real

security guarantees we're working with our partners to exert such pressure. I thank everybody for helping. Look, let's face it, the United States ain't helping. Europe's helping, Canada's helping, Australia's helping, the United States ain't helping. The United States is engaged in espionage against our allies. As I reported yesterday morning, the United States was caught sending spies and engaging in covert influence operations in Greenland to try to plan to take over Greenland via military invasion. Denmark caught the United States, basically spying on them to plan an invasion to take over the sovereignty of Greenland to conquer it. And Greenland has, and Denmark, Greenland's still part of Denmark, has summoned the top U.S. diplomats to hold meetings over this espionage attempt.

By the way, I view it as an act of war. I mean, it should trigger Article 5 of NATO against a NATO member in the U.S. frankly, NATO should throw out the United States based on the way Donald Trump has been behaving. I understand why they don't. I mean, just listen to Donald Trump's ambassador to Canada. Pete Hoekstra continued to whine. Here play this clip. Some Canadian politicians have decided that they will attack the president personally.

They will attack people on his economic team, his negotiating team. They will attack them personally, not on the policy, but them personally. Again, that is a Canadian decision. All we do is respond to it. More whining from him. Let's play this clip right here. Do you understand why some Canadians are upset with your president when he talks about the 51st state? And why some of them don't want to travel?

Why some white provinces are banning a hold? Do you understand why? In reality, I've talked to a lot of Canadians, and I will be the first to a member. I still don't fully understand how personal and how aggressive some Canadians have become on this issue. Okay, so no, I don't fully understand it. I understand that those feelings exist. They're part of my reality. But, you know, they don't really exist on the other side of the border.

Americans are not banning the sale of Canadian products into America. I've asked a lot of places, you know, what's America? tourism doing and they say it's the same if not up this year Americans still love Canada we're coming here we're spending American dollars in Canada because we view Canada as as a friendly country and even though you know we both have wards okay you don't like the 51st state guess what we didn't like it that you didn't pay for NATO for years but that didn't stop us from coming to Canada or evaluating Canadian products based on their merit and their value. You recently did spark some controversy on this when you said, you know, there are reasons

President Trump and his team refer to Canada as mean and nasty to deal with. Do you stand by those comments or do you regret those at all? No, I mean, I'm quoting the President of the United States. I'm quoting my boss. Do I regret quoting my boss? No, I support my boss. Absolutely. Is it hard to work for your boss when he says some of the things?

he says, and you're supposed to be a diplomat? The, you know what I like about Donald Trump is Donald Trump makes very clear where he's going and what his objectives are. He wants prosperity for the American people. He wants security and stability. He wants a strong, you know, Western world militarily. He wants to end the killing in Ukraine. He wants peace and stability in the Middle East.

You know exactly where he's going. And, you know, someone asked yesterday, you know, is there any flexibility in his strategy? Yes, he knows where he's going. And if a strategy is not working, he's more than willing to adjust the strategy. But he's not adjusting the end point. Just say, okay, I've had a strategy in place. I'm not getting the results that I want. Okay, I'll try some other way to get there.

And while all of this is going on, we're seeing Canadians now. Take a look at this stat. Over 54% of Canadians with properties in the U.S. in a survey said they've either sold or are planning on selling their properties. And I think that number is going to even get higher. Lots of Canadians at properties in Florida and elsewhere. So not only are they boycotting American products and only are they boycotting travel to America. They're getting rid of their properties.

They want nothing to do with the United States of America. and they're citing the, quote, polarizing political climate because of Donald Trump. And just look in all places. Look at North Dakota right now where Canadian border crossings to North Dakota plummet nearly 30% causing massive, massive damages to businesses there. There's a reason why when you look at the statistics in America, the highest bankruptcies and like decades right now, more bankruptcies through August in the United States than in the past two years, combined and we're only in August right now. We're seeing massive unemployment numbers. We're seeing low job numbers. We're seeing treasury bonds spreads increasing and specifically the 20 to 30 year treasury bond notes surging right now showing instability in our markets. The dollar is absolutely

crashing. And other stock markets are doing significantly better than the United States right now. Trump is destroying the United States of America. And I think of that speech, though, there by Prime Minister Carney at the military base, showing real leadership. Canada, France, Macron, Carney, I think they're showing. We're the leaders of the free world now, not the United States. Tell me what you think. Please, in the comments below, I really want to hear from me.

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