"Empire is great. Empire is back. Empire is American. The US secretary of state delivered what can only be described as a 22-minute ode to empire. A love letter to conquest and colonialism. A proud defense of the West's territorial expansion. That secretary of state was, of course, Marco Rubio the long-time foreign-policy hawk who is now one of the most influential voices in a Maga-dominated Republican party that once pretended it wanted to end forever wars."
"In Munich, in Germany of all places, Rubio delivered an encomium to five centuries of the West's missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe. He lamented the contracting of the great Western empires in the wake of the second world war. He decried the godless communist revolutions and anti-colonial uprisings which, for the record, helped free 750 million people across 80 former colonies"
Marco Rubio, speaking as the top U.S. diplomat in the Trump administration, delivered a 22-minute speech in Munich that openly celebrated American imperialism and territorial expansion. The speech praised five centuries of Western missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and settlers who built global empires and lamented post-World War II decolonization and communist revolutions. Rubio framed contemporary U.S. actions as assertive leadership, even as the administration pursued territorial and extractive policies in places like Venezuela. European elites responded with a standing ovation. The speech signaled a clear, public embrace of overt imperial rhetoric from a leading Republican figure.
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