And the assembled crowd laps it all up, the speaker thanking him three times for his 'message of reassurance' at the end.

https://nitter.net/BenjaminNorton/status/2022877849300988392#m

Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton
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This is insane.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century.

The US empire wants Europe to help it recolonize the Global South.

Rubio praised Western colonialists for "settl[ing] new continents, build[ing] vast empires extending out across the globe".

Then Rubio complained about the Global South's decolonization, portraying it as a sinister communist plot.

Rubio lamented: "The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come".

Rubio delivered this speech at the Munich Security Conference, surrounded by European leaders, who gave him a standing ovation. They loved the pro-colonialist diatribe.

The US secretary of state insisted that North American and European imperialists should unite in order to reverse "the West’s managed decline", to revive "the West’s age of dominance", to "renew the greatest civilization in human history".

This is a blatant call by the US empire to resuscitate Western colonialism and recolonize the Global South (which represents the Global Majority).

What the US empire did to Gaza, Venezuela, and currently Cuba is what it wants to do to the entire Global South.

This is from the official transcript published by the US State Department: state.gov/releases/office-of…

Some people are surprised that Marco Rubio gave such an explicitly pro-colonialist speech, given his family is technically of Cuban descent.

HOWEVER, Rubio made it clear he does NOT identify as Cuban. He identifies as a US American of European descent.

In the same speech, he praised the European colonialists who ethnically cleansed the Native Americans and founded the US, and he stressed "we will always be a child of Europe".

Rubio then proudly traced his ancestry back to Italy (Piedmont-Sardinia) and Spain.

Rubio does not identify with Cuba, Latin America, and the Caribbean; he identifies with Western colonialists.

And Rubio emphasized that he, in his capacity as the chief of the US empire's foreign policy, wants to revive Western colonialism

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read:
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/02/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-at-the-munich-security-conference

This part stunk especially fiercely:

'And finally, we can no longer place the so-called global order above the vital interests of our people and our nations. We do not need to abandon the system of international cooperation we authored, and we don’t need to dismantle the global institutions of the old order that together we built. But these must be reformed. These must be rebuilt.

For example, the United Nations still has tremendous potential to be a tool for good in the world. But we cannot ignore that today, on the most pressing matters before us, it has no answers and has played virtually no role. It could not solve the war in Gaza. Instead, it was American leadership that freed captives from barbarians and brought about a fragile truce. It had not solved the war in Ukraine. It took American leadership and partnership with many of the countries here today just to bring the two sides to the table in search of a still-elusive peace.

It was powerless to constrain the nuclear program of radical Shia clerics in Tehran. That required 14 bombs dropped with precision from American B-2 bombers. And it was unable to address the threat to our security from a narcoterrorist dictator in Venezuela. Instead, it took American Special Forces to bring this fugitive to justice.

In a perfect world, all of these problems and more would be solved by diplomats and strongly worded resolutions. But we do not live in a perfect world, and we cannot continue to allow those who blatantly and openly threaten our citizens and endanger our global stability to shield themselves behind abstractions of international law which they themselves routinely violate. '

You mean the UN whose efforts you sabotaged at every turn, allowing your zionist colony to bomb, murder, assassinate and exclude from any meaningful programme of assistance for the Palestinians? And that last sentence, wow, the unbelievable nerve of this guy, and the complete lack of self-awareness, considering that this has been the US empire's modus operandum ever since the concept of international law was first developed.

Whatever, it's a function of power to make you swallow absurd lies and poisonous fictions and threaten punishment if you don't pretend to enjoy it and ask for more.

jeers,
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