Caitlin Johnstone
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More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers
During a Monday press conference in Tel Aviv after a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Graham said that “I’ve been coming here every two weeks whether I need to or not.”
Why is a South Carolina senator traveling to Israel every two weeks, rain or shine? The bloodthirsty warmonger answers this question in short order.
“The wars of the future are being planned here in Israel,” Graham said. “Because if you’re not one step ahead of the enemy, you suffer. The most clever, creative military forces on the planet are here in Israel.”
MARCO RUBIO CALLS FOR RETURN OF COLONIALISM
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave one of the most overtly colonial speeches at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday, 14th February, where he reminisced about 500 years of Western colonialism and how it expanded to… pic.twitter.com/uZqC5Y4pwS
— Sovereign Media (@sov_media) February 16, 2026
Graham salivated about the possibility of a US war with Iran, acknowledging that such a war could absolutely result in American troops in the region being struck by Iranian missiles but saying the US should go to war anyway.
“Could our soldiers be hit in the region? Absolutely, they could. Can Iran respond if we have an all-out attack? Absolutely, they can,” Graham said, arguing that “the risk associated with that is far less than the risk associated with blinking and pulling the plug and not helping the people as you promised.”
During a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the mask all the way off in an unsettling rant about the need to return to the good old days when western powers dominated the global south without pretense or apology.
“For five centuries, before the end of the second world war, the West had been expanding — its 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,” Rubio said. “But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. Half of it lived behind an Iron Curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow. 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.”
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… pic.twitter.com/tl4NojNdmP
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 15, 2026
Rubio, a notoriously anti-communist gusano, is here admitting that socialism played a leading role in pushing back against the abusive colonialism and empire-building of the western world in recent decades. A normal person would take this as a strong argument in favor of socialism, but Rubio says it like it’s a bad thing.
Rubio urged Europeans to join their white Christian brethren in the United States in re-conquering the brown-skinned communists and heathens who have been insisting upon their own sovereignty and the advancement of their own interests:
“Under President Trump, the United States of America will once again take on the task of renewal and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization’s past. And while we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.
“For the United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.
“We are part of one civilization — Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.”
MARCO RUBIO CALLS FOR RETURN OF COLONIALISM
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave one of the most overtly colonial speeches at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday, 14th February, where he reminisced about 500 years of Western colonialism and how it expanded to… pic.twitter.com/uZqC5Y4pwS
— Sovereign Media (@sov_media) February 16, 2026
Sovereign Media (Full text) @sov_media MARCO RUBIO CALLS FOR RETURN OF COLONIALISM US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave one of the most overtly colonial speeches at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday, 14th February, where he reminisced about 500 years of Western colonialism and how it expanded to "settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.” Rubio’s nostalgic hymn to “five centuries” of Western imperialism erases who paid the price: indigenous peoples annihilated, Africans enslaved, and colonised societies gutted so Europe and the U.S. could accumulate wealth. The “missionaries, pilgrims, soldiers, explorers” he romanticises were also agents of land theft, forced conversion, and mass killings. Treating that era as a civilizational achievement rather than the apex of organised human suffering reveals the worldview animating the new Trump administration: domination dressed up as destiny. Today, this same logic plays out on the empire’s frontiers. The genocides in Gaza, eastern Congo, and Sudan show how expendable entire populations become once they are consigned to the periphery of a crumbling imperial order. As core states scramble to maintain hegemony, those on the margins are left to starve, be bombed, or be massacred. Rubio, whom critics derisively call “Narco Rubio” over disputed allegations about Miami drug networks, epitomises this hypocrisy. While the CIA, at the behest of US presidents, has long been enabling or weaponizing drug trafficking through right‑wing militias in Latin America, Rubio orchestrated the kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting president under the banner of “narco‑terrorism.” Simultaneously, he champions ever harsher measures on Cuba that function as a merciless blockade, squeezing hospitals, schools, and food supplies in a country already under siege. This is not “democracy promotion”; it is a crime against humanity. Rubio’s invitation to Europe to “walk together again” is thus chilling. It signals a project of rebooted colonialism—run by the Trump, billionaire, intelligence, and Epstein elite—that risks accelerating global conflict. |
It takes a special kind of psychopath to look back with fondness upon five centuries of unchecked western colonialism and imperialism and then advocate a return to those horrific days. Mass genocides across entire continents. The African slave trade. The violent subjugation and enslavement of entire populations. That is what Rubio is looking back on and sighing with nostalgia.
And this is of course to say nothing of the savagery his beloved “Western civilization” is perpetrating in the present day. This is the civilization of the Gaza holocaust. The civilization that cannot exist without constant war, exploitation and extraction. The civilization that is presently strangling Cuba to death and preparing for war with Iran. The civilization that still to this day violently subjugates and robs the global south. The civilization of ecocide. The civilization of Epstein.
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Narco Boobie-o, dusky skinned KKK reject, just provided the world with a permanent record of the complete mental derangement of his full apeshit psycho (FAP) racist regime and of himself.
A 100% Orwellian rant diametrically opposed to all that is truthful and decent.
What Narco celebrates as western “civilization” is in fact psychopathic barbarism.
He is the architect behind the death and suffering of millions of innocent people in Latin America, especially Venezuela and Cuba right now. He cheerleads and materially supports the genocide of the Palestinians.
His celebration of invasions, genocide, slavery and human exploitation, certainly includes the approval of the anal bayoneting to death of Gaddafi organised by kackling Killary Klinton.
Such a good deed needs to be rewarded by the anal bayoneting to death of Narco.
That is the golden rule. Do unto others.
Narco celebrates the psychopath-serving arbitrary criminal mass murder of innocents.
We would celebrate the humanity-serving targeted and justified execution of the guilty.
Who would argue that the assassination of Hitler and all his henchmen would have been a good thing?
F*ck the Colonists.
F*ck the Imperialists.
F*ck the Genociders.
F*ck Narco Boobie-o.