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…