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More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers
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US empire managers have been making some surprisingly honest admissions
in recent days, with Senator Lindsey Graham saying the wars of the
future are being planned in Israel and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
calling for a return to old-school western colonialism.
During a Monday press conference
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Tel Aviv after a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Graham said
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“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.”
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Sometimes, Senator Graham just puts it out in the plainest language:
“The wars of the future are being planned here in Israel.”
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
Western civilization is the most depraved and abusive civilization that
has ever existed. It doesn’t need a return to its prime, it needs to be
stopped in its tracks and made healthy. This is obvious from a glance at
the deranged empire managers this civilization has been elevating to
positions of leadership.
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