Back on July 11 and 12, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the NATO Summit in Brussels. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan are with him. Parallel to the official NATO Summit another event takes place.
Whether we agree with our leaders or not, it is important to hear what they say. This is perhaps particularly significant when they choose to speak to an international audience. These talks are are often outside of the headlines, deliberately so, and we ignore all of their words at our peril.
NATO Engages: The Brussels Summit Dialogue, is described as, “a two-day event jointly hosted by the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), the Munich Security Conference (MSC), and Women in International Security (WIIS).”
The Summit Dialogue gives various leaders, surrogates, and enablers a platform from which to promote a specific policy concern using jargon I call UNese.
During one such ‘dialogue’, Trudeau and company speak on something called Our Shared Global Values—just thirty-odd minutes plus a short Q &A.
For this article I watched the first of three short videos. In the spirit of enlightenment I decided to write down what each of them said. Next I started to peel back the layers to discover what the heck they’re talking about. Some might call that decoding.
Trudeau spoke at the two-day event jointly hosted by “the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), the Munich Security Conference (MSC), and Women in International Security (WIIS) in Brussels on the sidelines of the NATO Summit.”
Trudeau downloads his typical global-speak word-salad, a 570-odd near comma-free word-string that’s easy to dismiss as the empty-headed brain droppings of a former snowboarding instructor.
The scene is tailor-made for Trudeau eager to buff his street-cred, elite globalist-wise.
What an opportunity to highlight current and future phases; next steps to advance and broaden their progressive UN-EU and now NATO-wide, dark agenda.
I start the tour in chronological order. Videos two and three; here, and here, I will cover in separate articles for this series. Quotes appear first in the same order as in the video. Errors are all mine.
Worth noting also, the boundaries of this public relations set-piece are promptly defined by moderator Karen Donfried, President of The German Marshall Fund of the United States. In my opinion, she literally spoon-feeds Justin each of his talking points (listen to her delivery yourself here).
At any rate, all of the above is my long-winded attempt to set the scene because context does matter.
"“NATO Engages” provided a platform to share a diverse range of topics to opinion-formers, policymakers, digital influencers and younger audiences that complemented the main Summit agenda."
Standing on a small theater style stage, Donfried, having introduced the trio as ‘Canada’s Dream Team,’ speaks first to the seated Trudeau. “The success of NATO rests on our shared interests but also very importantly on our belief in common values and I’d like to ask you to start by sharing with all of us your view of why NATO is vital to Canada’s security and why you see the alliance as relevant to our 21st century challenges.”
What follows is the full transcript of Justin Trudeau responding to Donfried.
Trudeau: “Yes thank you Karen and thank you for ah giving us this opportunity to uh to engage this morning um we have to remember a little bit why and how NATO came into being. NATO exists and existed because the great democracies had just encountered communism and fascism uh and it remained as a, ere, was an ongoing existence of pushing back against communism ah but it’s about enhancing and protecting the democratic principles that we all uh hold as our core-values and that is something that continues to be as relevant has been how we help burgeoning democracies like Latvia—I mean as you mentioned I was there yesterday—and it was extraordinary to see uh how ah one of the things we don’t talk enough about at NATO is what happens when diversity of voices from within NATO come together in the battle group that Canada is leading for Operation uh, Reassurance for the enhanced Forward Presence uh, ah is the most diverse in terms of uh nations seven or eight different nations [Ed: Albania, Canada, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain] coming together not just, uh, you know, side by side but integrated with each other the learning that we do and the and the opportunity uh to ah to grow together and reinforce those shared values in a way that is tangible and real while supporting the Baltic States is an extraordinarily important thing beyond just the military combat capacities uh…
Hang in there folks. Trudeau is still reciting his lines.
"...it’s about remembering that we stand together in very important ways uh and as you (Donfried) say we were glad to extend ah our mission for another four years to continue with Canada’s leadership on this uh and that actually brings me to another announcement uh that Canada is proud to be making uh we are going to be uh looking with great interest this afternoon as NATO announces uh that we are going to engage in Iraq as an alliance uh capacity-building training ah that next step in the challenge in Iraq which was first defeating Daesh and now we have to rebuild that democracy and strengthen it NATO is going to take a significant role in that and Canada is going to commit uh 250 troops a number of helicopters and we’re actually offering to command that mission for the first year uh this is something that we believe in deeply,” a dramatic pause, a nanosecond for polite applause and Trudeau is not done yet, “and you’re question Karen was about you know how does this matter for Canada’s security well Canada knows ah that a peaceful world a more resilient world a more democratic world is good for Canada and it’s good for all of us and that’s why we believe so deeply in NATO that’s why we stand so strongly with the transatlantic alliance and will continue to step up uh everywhere we can uh as you said we’ve been in every mission not because uh of any other reason than we believe deeply in ah the values that we’re putting forward and we know that NATO is as necessary now as it was in the height of the Cold War it’s as necessary now to promote ah the peace security and strength of our true democracies and those democratic principles which are under threat everywhere around the world it seems, uh, this is a moment for us to stand together and understand that the perspective that we fight for and stand for uh is essential today and tomorrow.”
Now finally Trudeau takes his seat. You can imagine him in his head ticking off phrases and broken sentences. His studied talking-point spiel delivered in as one uh-laden run-on sentence. His day’s work is done.
Did you get all of that?
Notice how there isn’t a single point on which he can be challenged, not one.
So Canada joined NATO missions only because of unnamed values. No mention of the threat of war or how communism in the 20th century killed millions. That’s not important for this guy.
Referring back to Trudeau’s opening line, “We have to remember a little bit why and how NATO came into being. NATO exists and existed because the great democracies had just encountered communism and fascism uh and it remained as a er, was an ongoing existence of pushing back against communism…”
Remember, Trudeau is speaking at NATO. A few in the audience may have the bona fides to speak about these, “21st century challenges.” Justin is not among them.
I didn’t hear him say we need to wipe-out communism.
No mention of Islamic jihad as the enemy of freedom. Trudeau did not talk of secure borders. You’ll never hear him name a single value. That’s not an error. You can see what Trudeau is promoting?
Trudeau along with his globalist cohort is actively working to change democracy. The principles from which sprang individualism, reason, the scientific method, and capitalism are to be destroyed.
His agenda is the globalist agenda. You can see how it is dependent on subverting NATO. The pattern continues for globalist forces subversion of everything that our Western culture. Stay tuned for more in Part 2.
Read part 2 here.