00:00A trending topic on the world's geopolitical scenario of today is Canada in the European Union.
00:07And there is no best analyst to discuss about it than our friend Matthew Eret, a genuine Canadian patriot.
00:18Matthew, welcome back to ThinkBrigs.
00:20Well, thanks for having me back on, and to do it in the flesh is a great pleasure here in
00:24Moscow.
00:26Yeah, overall, I don't think the strategy is necessarily a surprise, since Canada, as soon as Carney came into power,
00:33was already putting into motion Canada-EU military integration with the Canada-EU arms treaty.
00:40There has been also, I think, a certain amount of subtle coordination, which many have been missing as well, dealing
00:47with the military-industrial complex that we can maybe talk about later on in this interview.
00:50Though I presume that what is happening right now, in my analysis, has more to do with a collaborative effort
00:58of dividing up labor on the part of the Americans and the Canadians and the Europeans
01:03that was outlined by Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance at the very beginning of Trump 2.0, which called
01:10for Europe to carry more of the burden in the battle against Russia,
01:16while the U.S. would begin a new narrative campaign to melt the icy wall separating U.S.-Russia relations, which
01:24has been moving forward.
01:25And I suspect, and I hope that I'm wrong, but I do suspect that the overarching agenda is to loosen
01:32the Russia-China relationship by creating this division of labor now for the first time.
01:38And Canada joining the EU, I suspect, is playing into that strategy in some manner.
01:43Especially in the Arctic, I think.
01:46The European Union just opened the door for Canada to become its first associate member.
01:55Some analysts argue that this could bring Canada and Europe much closer militarily, especially in Arctic, and increase pressure on
02:08Russia.
02:08So, is Canada really becoming more independent from Washington, or is it simply becoming part of a larger Western strategy
02:20against Russia?
02:21I think there's a reassembling of world systems.
02:24Even now you have, within the context of your question, the UK, members of the UK itself are breaking up.
02:31Scotland, Wales, Ireland are in discussion right now to get out of the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and join the
02:37European Union as well.
02:39I think that that will go ahead, and I think it is part of the same strategy we are also
02:43seeing, such that much of this was laid out, unfortunately, in broad terms by Count Richard Kudenhova-Kalergi in the
02:541940s,
02:55when he was discussing the need to reorganize the world system such that the British Empire is revived and separated
03:02from the system of a new European Union that he fought to bring into being.
03:07He is the founding father, in many ways, of the European Union.
03:11And in his books, he's very, very explicit about his idea of the hierarchy of control mechanisms,
03:16such that he never believed that the British Commonwealth should ever be a part of,
03:21but should stay above and independent of the European Union he wanted to create as a dominant force.
03:27And I sincerely believe that currently there is a new British Empire emerging out of the ashes, currently, of the
03:40current crisis that's being pushed.
03:41On the Arctic, there's some ambiguity, because Canada just finalized a deal with Lockheed Martin,
03:49a major U.S. military industrial firm, to supply 26 HIMARS long-range missile systems in the Arctic.
03:58This was begun in 2024 under Justin Trudeau, under a new Canadian Arctic security or defense paradigm
04:06that was outlined in, I think, April of 2024, and now it's finally being realized with a NORAD military upgrade,
04:14the biggest in history currently underway.
04:16The missiles are coming from Europe, the long-range missiles, but the actual HIMARS are from Lockheed Martin.
04:22You have also Raytheon, Boeing providing major radar systems,
04:28as well as deals with Australia to provide for some of the longest new radar systems for the Arctic
04:39in preparation nominally for a war against both Russia and China, but maybe only one, we'll see.
04:45And that's going ahead.
04:46So I think that when I look at it top-down, there seems to be a more concerted policy
04:52that falls into Donald Trump's early announcement of a Golden Dome strategy,
04:57while from the bottom up, it appears to be a severing of relations between Canada, Europe, and the USA.
05:05But I think it's only useful to look at it from the top-down that you start seeing
05:09where integration is actually taking place.
05:12And I could also say something about Palantir,
05:14Palantir, which is a major expansive program in the UK, as well as in Canada,
05:21managing much of the new AI management, as well as interpretation of data systems and surveillance,
05:27and data centers too, many of whom are being built up by Google, Amazon, Meta,
05:35which are managing much of that structure inside of Canada.
05:38So I think I'm a little bit more cynical and pessimistic when it comes to the idea
05:43that there is a legitimate breakdown of the structures of the transatlantic.
05:47There is on the surface a breakdown, but I think there is a planned, organized reset
05:51that is trying to seduce the Russians into believing that America can now be trusted
05:58and is trying to seduce the Chinese into believing that Canada is now your better friend
06:03than it used to be in order to, again, weaken that bond.
06:06I see.
06:06And if Canada becomes more closely integrated with Europe in the Arctic,
06:12could this actually make Canada less independent rather than more
06:17by replacing one sphere of influence with another?
06:21Yes, it would definitely make Canada less independent.
06:25Although one could say that Canada currently is not that independent already.
06:30So to say that relative to the almost no independence that we currently have,
06:34it's hard to say,
06:35but I don't think it will make the situation better, no.
06:37Okay, I see.
06:39Well, now a question about BRICS.
06:41It's a great number of our audience is Canadians, is from Canada, sorry.
06:47It might be interesting for them.
06:49We have just seen the BRICS summit in New Delhi with the bloc becoming increasingly important
06:57in the global economy and the emerging multiple world.
07:01Do you think Canada should be looking for a way to engage with BRICS rather than just seeing it as
07:09a rival to the West?
07:10Yeah, most certainly.
07:12I had great hope when Canada first joined the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank as one of the few Western nations
07:18that had the courage to do so.
07:20And unfortunately, since that period over 10 years ago, there's been a disengagement from the BRICS as a whole.
07:27And it is playing a very subversive role.
07:29But I do think that the BRICS offers potentially one of the greatest hopes of a collective power block of
07:35nations capable of resisting global imperialism, if it's done well.
07:39And Canada would benefit much more by having a pro-growth, pro-industrial orientation focused on peace and business, as
07:46you find within the BRICS, than it does within NATO or within any of these other militarized security compacts that
07:52we've been in far too long.
07:54But they cannot.
07:56They are not a fort.
07:57I mean, Canadian states cannot make decisions by their own.
08:03Canada doesn't make very many decisions by their own.
08:05No, there's chains of commands that tie you to both players in Washington, unofficial players, but more importantly, players within
08:13the British Empire that still exists in my assessment, as you know.
08:16And that means the Privy Council, the structures of the City of London, the informal, but I think very real
08:22shadow government that has always been the British Empire and which still is, exerts the dominant influence on what happens
08:30domestic and foreign in Canada policy.
08:33Yeah.
08:33So the final one.
08:35If the world is moving to a multipolar system, what is the biggest mistake Canada would make right now?
08:45It would be to choose to antagonize this system and to see it as a threat instead of seeing it
08:53as an opportunity to learn to think in a new way, to think about economic and military and other security
08:58and cultural diplomacy in a more healthy way than we've been subjected to over our entire history.
09:06So, you know, I think if we change our paradigm and think more in a healthy, optimistic way about the
09:12nature of humanity and the nature of law and our future, then it would be great to work with the
09:17BRICS.
09:18If not, then we stuck with the same old, same old.
09:21And of course, Carney, Mark Carney is using nice language, which is favorable to the type of language we tend
09:27to hear out of the Chinese diplomatic circles.
09:30But I think, unfortunately, for me, it's intention, which is everything.
09:34Having nice language is less meaningful than having an honest policy to really make it work and not simply want
09:40to get in close in order to sabotage it more from within, which is what I fear that Canada's history
09:46has been more used to get in close using nice language.
09:49But with the intention of infiltrating and infusing sabotage within otherwise positive movements, words, words, but nothing in substance, nothing
09:58in substance in the long term, in the short term, short term.
10:00Yes, long term.
10:01No.
10:02OK.
10:02Yeah.
10:03So, Matthew, thank you so much.
10:04It was a pleasure to talk to you in flesh and bones.
10:07Yeah, absolutely.
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