US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an overtly pro-colonialist speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he praised "the great Western empires" and said North America and Europe should unite to recolonize the Global South. Ben Norton reports on the increasing desperation of the imperialist West as its global dominance declines.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWRy7A1cJI
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0:00 (CLIP) Marco Rubio praises colonialism
1:13 From colonialism to decolonization
2:17 Western colonies today
3:24 USA wants to reverse decolonization
4:30 Marco Rubio's pro-colonialist speech
6:06 (CLIP) Rubio loves "great Western empires"
6:58 Demonizing anti-colonial movements
7:55 (CLIP) US plan to reverse West's decline
8:57 (CLIP) Erasing colonial crimes
9:32 Proud of colonialism
10:21 (CLIP) "Purported sins" of colonialism
10:37 Crimes of Western colonialism
11:39 (CLIP) Armies fight for "civilization"
11:49 EU leaders applaud colonialist speech
12:31 (CLIP) EU standing ovation for Rubio
12:40 Western media coverage
13:16 Munich Security Conference (MSC)
13:43 (CLIP) Europe's colonial "sigh of relief"
14:15 Defeat of European colonialism
14:57 US imperial message to Global South
15:58 (CLIP) "Western civilization"
16:30 Western civilization built on colonialism
17:00 (CLIP) Trump invites Europe to join
17:15 Rubio identifies as European, not Cuban
18:28 (CLIP) Rubio praises European colonizers
19:21 (CLIP) Rubio's ancestry in Italy & Spain
20:07 Capitalism vs anti-imperialist socialism
21:26 (CLIP) Anti-communism unites West
22:47 Cold War Two against China
23:42 New supply chain to cut out China
25:26 (CLIP) "Western supply chain"
25:49 US goal: reverse decolonization
26:19 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
27:05 China opposes imperialism
27:42 China's speech at MSC
28:38 Need to reform the UN
29:36 Equality for countries
30:20 China opposes new cold war
30:59 Multipolar world based on sovereignty
32:34 Global South is rising
33:13 US empire wants global dictatorship
33:49 USA vs China: polar opposites
35:18 Outro
