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      <title>More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers</title>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">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.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>During
                        a Monday </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">press conference</a><span>
                        in Tel Aviv after a meeting with Benjamin
                        Netanyahu, Graham </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8dfa50b7-6b65-4579-9b1d-df753b607df5?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">said</a><span> that \u201cI\u2019ve
                        been coming here every two weeks whether I need
                        to or not.\u201d</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Why
                      is a South Carolina senator traveling to Israel
                      every two weeks, rain or shine? The bloodthirsty
                      warmonger answers this question in short order.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
                      wars of the future are being planned here in
                      Israel,\u201d Graham said. \u201cBecause if you\u2019re not one
                      step ahead of the enemy, you suffer. The most
                      clever, creative military forces on the planet are
                      here in Israel.\u201d</p>
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                      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.</p>
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                        our soldiers be hit in the region? Absolutely,
                        they could. Can Iran respond if we have an
                        all-out attack? Absolutely, they can,\u201d Graham </span><a
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                        that \u201cthe 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.\u201d</span></p>
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                        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.</span></p>
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                      five centuries, before the end of the second world
                      war, the West had been expanding\u200a\u2014\u200aits
                      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,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cBut
                      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.\u201d</p>
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                    <p
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                      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\u2019s a bad thing.</p>
                    <p
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                      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:</p>
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                        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\u2019s 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.</p>
                      <p
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                        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.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWe
                        are part of one civilization\u200a\u2014\u200aWestern
                        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.\u201d</p>
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                      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.</p>
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                      this is of course to say nothing of the savagery
                      his beloved \u201cWestern civilization\u201d 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.</p>
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                      civilization is the most depraved and abusive
                      civilization that has ever existed. It doesn\u2019t
                      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.</p>
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