Charlie Angus reacts to Trump Venezuela Attack

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1:30Ben Meiselas:Save$80 with code SPACE80 at Talkspace.com. The Canadian people are furious after Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela and Donald Trump's press conference that he held thereafter, after referring to what he wants to do in terms of American dominance in the Western Hemisphere as the Don Roe Doctrine. The Canadian people have prepared themselves and are preparing themselves for what Donald Trump's real ambitions are to totally dominate and control the Western Hemisphere. And as Donald Trump said a year ago, turn Canada into the 51st state, turn Greenland into a state, turn Venezuela into a state, take over the Panama Canal.

2:15Ben Meiselas:This is what Trump's ambitions are in 2026. If you take a look a year ago, the New York Post cover from January 8th, 2025, which is the name that Donald Trump is invoking now, the Don Road Doctrine. This is what Trump was talking about then. This is the New York Post article. And you see it's Donald Trump pointing to Canada saying 51st state, Greenland saying our land, Gulf of Mexico saying Gulf of America, Panama Canal calling it Pana-MAGA. Of course, you know Donald Trump's social media posts throughout the past year where he kept on saying that Canada must become a state. We must make Canada a state.

2:55Ben Meiselas:Just think about how beautiful it will look without the border of Canada has become a stiff Canada becomes a state Stephen Miller's wife or girlfriend or whatever. She posts a photo of Greenland just now with the American flag over. I mean, these are truly disturbed people. And here's what Donald Trump said about the Don Road doctrine, which Trump has defined as conquering Canada, taking it over, invading it. Here's what he said at the press conference. This was not lost on the Canadian people. Play this clip. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot.

3:36Ben Meiselas:They now call it the Don Road Doctrine. I don't know. It's Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it. It was very important, but we forgot about it. We don't forget about it anymore. Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere, will never be questioned again. Won't happen. Notice what he's saying there, dominance. And this is not about democracy. I mean, the main opposition leader, Machado, Donald Trump said that she's weak and that the people don't like her in Venezuela and that she shouldn't be the new leader of Venezuela. He said the people don't respect her.

4:19Ben Meiselas:Here's what he said. I mean, You would think that if, you know, that she's the Nobel Peace Prize winner, she's the main opposition leader. If this idea was about democracy, there would be references to that. But that's not what he said. He said it's about oil. It's about taking over their resources for American oil companies. Here's what he said about Machado. Are you guys aware of the location of opposition leader Machado and have you been in contact with her? No, we haven't. Mr. President, on Monday. I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country.

4:54Ben Meiselas:She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect to be the leader. I want to bring in Charlie Angus, leader of Midas Canada, leader of the Resistance Tour, the Midas Canada Tour. Charlie, good to see you. Talk to us about what you're hearing from the Canadian people right now after this unlawful invasion by the United States of Venezuela. Well, you know, in Canada for a long time, the issues of Latin America seemed very far away. We'd seen gunboat diplomacy used time and time again. And we just thought, well, that's not something we would have to deal with. But Donald Trump is making us deal with this.

5:32And Donald Trump has made it very clear what his agenda is. He doesn't give a damn about democracy. He doesn't give a damn about human rights. The Canadian government had opposed Modero on a number of issues in terms of democracy and human rights. But Donald Trump says he doesn't care. He wants their oil. He doesn't even believe that their opposition leader will have a place because he plans to run Venezuela himself. Good luck, Donald. Good luck with that. My sense from the Canadian people is that, you know, again, last year we would have been really nervous. We'd have been freaked out by this.

6:04There's a sense that you can feel everywhere of a determination. We understand exactly who we're up against. We understand that this is a criminal. This man is a convicted criminal who survived for decades siphoning off dark Russian money. He's now doing smash and grab politics, bandit politics, trying to steal other nations' resources. And it's forcing the rest of the world to decide which side they're on. And right now, our leader, Mark Carney, has been in content communication with the Europeans. I don't think the Europeans would have probably backed us at the beginning of last year. Honest to God, I was over at NATO.

6:44They were freaked out. They wanted to appease MAGA, but MAGA has no friends. Donald Trump isn't interested in allies. So we see this attack on Venezuela as setting the stage for an attack where Donald Trump could go anywhere. The same language he's used against Venezuela, he's used against us, a democratic nation, and he sees that we have immense resources. The difference is this time, Donald, good luck trying to think that you are going to intimidate or break the Canadian people. It's not going to happen.

7:14Ben Meiselas:You know, when Trump used the rhetoric 51st state, I mean, you were one of the first to say this isn't him being funny. This isn't rhetoric. It's not mere trolling. This is not just economic warfare language. I mean, you were really the first person out there, one of the first people out to say this is war language. He's actually declaring a war or intentions to go to war with Canada. He really wants to take it over. That's his ambition. If the Canadian people don't resist, you and I have covered how Canada has resisted on the economic side of things. But very quietly behind the scenes, Canada has been working on military plans as well, whether it is, frankly, working with the Ukrainians to learn about the drone technology even more and implementing a strategy in the event the United States invades with drones, the civilian army of 300 ,000 people, which I know lots of Canadian corporate media kind of pooh-poohs and goes, ah, that's not, you know, oh, are we really going to be able to do that?

8:24Ben Meiselas:But it's actually, you know, real serious. So, You've got Prime Minister Carney reconsidering, you know, the American aircrafts and whether even though the American aircrafts are clearly superior aircraft, if Donald Trump is able to manipulate the aircraft, should you be dependent on that? Or do you take a inferior aircraft, but that you can start to control the destiny of it and build it out with Sweden, with their at place. Talk to us about on the military side, because Canada's, they're not announcing, they're not like doing this to a great deal of public fanfare, but they're dealing with the military side of things quietly.

9:06It is really extraordinary what's happened in the last year. Canada's really stepped forward on the world stage. We're talking about permanent military base in Latvia to work with the Latvians on the frontline against Putin. We've been there in Ukraine doing training, but I think the real issue is getting trained in how to fight these kind of gangster wars of the 21st century, the drone wars. Our prime minister has been meeting with the Swedes, with the Finns. We are moving dramatically on this, but we're doing it in a way very Canadian. Our prime minister doesn't want to draw attention, and Donald Trump shoots his mouth off, and they don't take us seriously.

9:45That's a real advantage for us. You know, we always see ourselves as a nation of likable slackers until you come up against Canadians. You know, Ben, in the Second World War, we were only 11 million people. When the Brits were trying to get their people off the shores of Dunkirk, we were already there in Britain. We had already put troops on the ground. That's how fast we moved. We were there in the skies over the Battle of Britain. You know, while the U.S. was wondering whether there could be peace with Herr Hitler, We had 17 and 18-year-olds on the North Atlantic taking out U-boats. 11 million people built the fourth largest air force in the world, the fourth largest Navy.

10:24We were everywhere. And then we kind of forgot about it. But I sense that determination now. The government's moving on this issue of a 300 ,000-person civilian volunteer force. I get messages all the time. People want to be part of this. People are ready. But I think what's really the larger issue here is that Trump believes he doesn't need allies. You know, whenever the when the U.S. went up against Noriega, you know, they built a whole paper trail in the courts. When they went up against the weapons of mass destruction, they brought the issue to the U.N. They were always trying to at least create a sense of international credibility because it was about the international rule of law.

11:04What Donald Trump is saying is he doesn't give a damn about the international rule of law. This is a direct attack on the UN. This is a direct attack on all the laws that have been put in place to keep the world peaceful since the Second World War. And Canada stands firmly with the international community. We cannot go along. We're not going to go along to get along. We cannot appease this man. This man is a convicted criminal who believes in shakedown politics. So yeah, this has been a real wake-up call for us. And I think that's the mistake Donald Trump makes every time he shoots his mouth off.

11:37Now, it reminds us to prepare, not to pick fights, to prepare, to get ready, to be ready, to be ready. The rest of the world is doing the same thing. The United States is going to be in for a big surprise very soon because nobody is going to be fooled when Donald Trump threatens the next time. People will be ready.

11:57Ben Meiselas:You know, it's interesting that, you know, I shared earlier the clip of Donald Trump saying that Maria Corina Machado doesn't have the respect of the people and she would make a bad leader. You have French President Emmanuel Macron saying, I just spoke with her. I fully support her call for the liberation and the protection of the political prisoners of the Maduro regime. Like all Venezuelans, she can count on France's support to raise her voice in favor of a peaceful democratic transition that fully respects the sovereign will of the Venezuelan people. And I think that people expect that Donald Trump's message would be something along the lines of that, or that would be a response.

12:44Ben Meiselas:But you now have this strange situation where Donald Trump seems to say, I'm running it. I'm ruling it. This is ours. Me, me, me, me, me. Or I'm going to put in another authoritarian puppet who likes me. We're not interested in democracy. And then you have – and Macron has been stepping up on the world stage too with his support of Ukraine and France offering its military supplies. So it's just a strange thing to see these dynamics develop where you think, well, surely Donald Trump is going to support Machado, right? She won the Nobel Peace Prize. No, no, no, he's not. He goes no. Well, I think the real issue here is that Trump could have gotten himself some kind of credibility by saying, I'm taking down a dictator, a human rights violator.

13:34But Donald Trump doesn't believe in democracy and he doesn't believe in human rights. And he's made it clear he plans to run Venezuela. Well, this is a massive country. You think that you can run a country without their consent? This is going to go very badly for the United States from the get go. He would have had some kind of paper-thin credibility for this invasion by supporting the Venezuelan opposition leader, but he's not. So what you're seeing now is I bet the Prime Minister Mark Carney is on the phone tonight to France, to Germany, to start saying, okay, what do we need to do here in terms of making sure that Trump doesn't try and extend this any further?

14:14But Trump is going to be in for big, big trouble because you can't run a country the size of Venezuela. You just can't go in and steal their resources just because you think you're able to get away with it. You may think you're a big mafia boss, Donnie, but this is where it's going to hit the road because the Venezuelan people, even the ones who didn't support Maduro, will not support a foreign power taking their resources. So this is going to be a quagmire from the get-go, the fact that he's now hinting that he's coming for us, he's coming for Greenland, he's coming for the other countries in Latin America.

14:48We're all having to now decide that this is a world in a new form of war. This is a world war, a hybrid war. This is an opening phase of the gangster attempt to take over. and we will be ready and Canadians will stand up and Canadians are really reconsidering our position as the quiet, peaceful, next door neighbors. We will do what we've got to do at this point.

15:12Ben Meiselas:Charlie, we always conclude our video this way. We know that Trump's people are always watching this. The ambassador to Canada is always watching this. They're all crews watching this. Right now, what's your message to Donald Trump after his unlawful invasion of Venezuela? Well, Donald Trump, you had no authority on this and you think you don't need authority, but you do. You don't believe that you need the international community. Well, you do. You don't have any friends. You don't think you need friends, Donald. You don't think you need allies. You do need allies. This is what every government has learned.

15:47But you are allied to the gangsters. You're allied to Putin. You're allied to Netanyahu. You're allied to Belarus. you are on your own here and you've taken over a country you've ridiculed their democratic opposition and you think you're going to run this and you think that canada is going to let you come and use the same level of gunboat diplomacy on us it's not going to happen don you have no idea what you've unleashed here you have no idea of the extent of opposition because you've surrounded yourself with criminal morons and donald quite frankly you are a criminal moron yourself. You're a narcissist.

16:24You're a convicted criminal. If you hadn't lived off Russian dark money for all these years, you would have been bankrupt long ago and you will be bankrupt again, Donald, because you are driving your country into the ground and making it a pariah on the international stage. As for Canada, we will do what we've got to do. We will continue to build our alliances. We will continue to refocus our economy away from the gangster economy so that we are ready. Whatever happens next, Donald, Canadians will not let you cross the border. Not now, not ever. We will always be true north, strong and free.

17:02Ben Meiselas:Charlie Angus, leader of Midas Canada, leader of the resistance, Torrent Canada. Everybody subscribe to the Midas Canada channel, which is on its way to 1 million subscribers. Just search Midas Canada and also check back on Midas Canada as Charlie announces the next stops on the resistance tour, including in some unexpected but very necessary places. I'll just leave it at that. Thanks, Charlie. Edmonton, January 17th. Edmonton, January 16th, Calgary, the 17th. We are coming to Alberta where we are going to be joining the Resisters in the fight against MAGA Alberta. Come on out, folks. I love it.

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