I heard more of a focus on a return to national sovereignty as opposed to globalism and international organizations. I listened again and still don’t hear a call for a return to colonialism.
I hear restore industrial base, control of borders, keeping culture of countries intact and not being afraid to be proud of one’s country.
See below:
“the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion: that we had entered, quote, “the end of history;” that every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood; that the rules-based global order – an overused term – would now replace the national interest; and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.
… shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized, shipping millions of working and middle-class jobs overseas, and handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals.
…outsourced our sovereignty to international institutions while many nations invested in massive welfare states at the cost of maintaining the ability to defend themselves...
To appease a climate cult, we have imposed energy policies on ourselves that are impoverishing our people, even as our competitors exploit oil and coal and natural gas and anything else – not just to power their economies, but to use as leverage against our own.
And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.
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. ”
Sorry, you're hearing what you want to hear and ignoring the core of the speech that that Trump is actually acting upon. I quoted Rubio explicitly stating that Trump will seek to restore Western dominance, after lauding the age of vastly expanding empires. And that's exactly what Trump is spending virtually all his time doing.
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.
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.
Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West’s age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make. This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you.
Do not apologize for your “rant!” It’s nothing of the kind! I spent yesterday seething with indignation over Ruse-io’s speech, thinking if “civilization” equals “genocide,” and other delightful equivocations, then doom is our common future. This cold and deceitful technocrat does not speak for me! He has attempted to turn, through pompous oratory, what has been a shambles, a wreck, of any sane, managed and moral foreign policy into world domination. A shameful and devious act! Would the spineless ignorant and supine Euros could see through it.
Rubio spouted what he was told to say by anglozionist globalist one-world govt types who see their grip slipping. Rube-io allowed no glimmer of hope for a world of prosperity for all through dialogue and peaceful cooperation. Instead he spouts a world of future confrontation. It’s all too obvious. Any young man signing up to the conflict du jour deserves a darwin award. We can all start by avoiding commerce with oligarchic businesses, where possible.
"We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world."
We assume that was written by a speechwriter?
That is referring to the Nazis who imbibed their ideology of racial supremacy from the British and their genocidal goal of purifying the human race from "unfit" lower races from American elites, this is detailed in the award winning book "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race" by Edwin Black, a massively award-winning writer. The doctrine of Darwinism was based on the idea that humanity evolved, but it was created right after the British Empire had been forced to end slavery in their empire in 1838 by religious activists. What were the Darwinist's teaching at that time? They taught in all of elite society and their universities that white people were the most evolved of all types of humans, it was the "White Man's Burden" to rule over the world. This was taught in schools in Europe and America until the Nazis made eugenics bad form.
Before WWII the American corporate elites built up German industry after they bought much of it up on the cheap after they destroyed the German economy through the economic war on them after WWI. American leaders then built up the Soviet economy and provided them with a massive infusion of war fighting material to fight the Germans.
In total, the U.S. delivered to the USSR through Lend-Lease: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386 of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans); 11,400 aircraft (of which 4,719 were Bell P-39 Air cobras, 3,414 were Douglas A-20 Havocs and 2,397 were Bell P-63 King cobras) and 1.75 million tons of food. (from wikipedia numbers)
"If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.”
Harry Truman a few years before his presidency, 1941
America could have invaded Europe much earlier than they did, but instead of listening to their generals Roosevelt and Churchill invaded Africa in order to eliminate the French Empire first, they literally attacked the French fleet and killed French sailors. Their excuse was they feared the Germans would take the French Navy, but the French Navy couldn't be taken by the Germans since the Nazi navy was far less capable then the French Navy, the Nazis had concentrated on a land and air force because their goal was the USSR, mainly, that is why they made a deal with the French, they knew they would lose in a naval war. The Germans only occupied northern France and made a deal with the Vichy French government to stay out of the war so they could keep their Navy and their colonies. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUloT3IaTE
So what was the result? America paid Germany and the USSR to fight each other but wanted the Soviets to come out on top--but only after destroying the European economy, then America would come in and "save" Europe by making them dependent on the dollar, on welfare, as they watched Americans buy up European businesses and land on the cheap.
This was literally planned by American elites. That plan was called The War and Peace Studies. It began to be devised 11 days after the start of WWII, Sept 12, 1939. It was researched and written by the Council on Foreign Relations with funding by The Rockefeller Foundation:
"Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs (The official magazine of The Council on Foreign Relations), and Walter H. Mallory, executive director of the CFR, made a trip to the State Department, where they volunteered council resources for a “continuous study of the course of the war and its effects on the United States politically, economically, geographically, and in matters of security and armament.” The conflict, they advised, would involve the United States, and prior preparation was vital, not only militarily, but also in terms of broader foreign policy objectives. The war presented a “grand opportunity” in fact for the United States to emerge as “the premier power in the world.” Assistant Secretary of State George Messersmith, himself a council member, was predictably enthusiastic and gained approval for the plan the same day."
From: American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith, pg 325, citing the personal archives of George Messersmith, Assistant Secretary of State: George S. Messersmith Papers, Memorandum of Conversation, September 12, 1939"
American elites set up the worldwide monetary system at Bretton Woods, NH near the end of WWII — in order to enable their dominance over the world’s economy as much as they thought possible by 1) Making the dollar the reserve currency, and 2) Creating the World Bank, IMF, etc. in a way that the very rich American upper class would be enabled to dominate over the world. When Nixon ended the ability to get gold for dollars in 1971, the Nixon Shock, the new dollar backed monetary system supercharged their ability to economically dominate the world because the dollar became as good as gold — and they were in control of creating and controlling dollars that everyone needed, because 3) They made a deal that they would protect the leaders of the biggest oil producers in the world in the Middle East (aka a protection racket) if they only sold oil for dollars.
Economist Michael Hudson wrote a famous book explaining how Bretton Woods and then the Nixon Shock worked called "Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance." When it first came out, he was asked by top American military leaders to visit them to explain how it worked. Why? Because it is not spoken about in “polite society” aka mainstream media and schools.
UN exists today only to support US taxpayer funded global genocide. US elites used UN to endorse their 2014 violent overthrow of Ukraine's elected government per 2/7/2014 BBC published transcript of Nuland-Pyatt phone call. In the call Nuland announces "Yats is the guy," ie, Yatsenyuk was US choice for next Ukraine Prime Minister: "Nuland: OK…one more wrinkle for you Geoff. [A click can be heard] I can’t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman [United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning?
[[BBC's] Jonathan Marcus:…Efforts to get the UN to play an active role in bolstering a deal; and (as you can see below) the big guns waiting in the wings – US Vice-President Joe Biden clearly being lined up to give private words of encouragement at the appropriate moment.]
Pyatt: Yeah I saw that.
Nuland: OK. He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.
[Jonathan Marcus:…The EU is divided and to some extent hesitant about picking a fight with Moscow….But the US clearly is determined to take a much more activist role.]
Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together….So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing….
Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s [Biden] national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.
Pyatt: OK. Great. Thanks.”
[[BBC's] Jonathan Marcus:…The US is clearly much more involved in trying to broker a deal in Ukraine than it publicly lets on. There is some embarrassment too for the Americans given the ease with which their communications were hacked....]"....https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957#share-tools
We are bankrupt morally - which probably does not matter to Rubio - but financially
And there is no debate - that Tariffs are coming out of the US Taxpayer pockets
Reported " Americans paid 96% of tariff costs, with only 4% absorbed by foreign exporters"
2025 Kiel Institute
Yale Budget Lab ' $3,800 annual loss per household in purchasing power '
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And Europe is so so bankrupt
Watched Alastair Crook speak about not just the money and weapons GIVEN to Ukraine but all the Loans GUARANTEED by the European Nations
Europe is so so bankrupt - but they will never mention that - it is probably the main reason they keep begging for a better settlement that will likely never come
I will have to find a photo: Rubio must have horns growing out of his head.
His speech, and your good analysis of it Mark, is overwhelming and yes, alarming.
The label of Fascism came to mind:
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.".....from wordnik.com
Anti-Christian speech--oh yes. This is the dark thinking and the dark people that God tells us to watch out for.
A few things: the worldwide adoption of Digital destroyed the Modern world (the 500 years reference). All the modern narratives out there window.
Digital “divides.” The prior Electronic Communication paradigm was about “one.” That is gone.
Three Spheres: West, East, Digital. Think of each as a civilization based on common aspects of language, which leads to shared history and spirituality.
The US was created in Modernity. All it knows is the modern.
The growing conflicts are going to be over exactly this, and the US/West’s desire to hold onto parts of the modern.
Digital is creating new attitudes and sensibilities which will then lead to new ideas, institutions, sciences, leaders, etc.
The crux of the Digital Paradigm is: decentralization (obvious), spirituality (obvious), and authority (the West will resist this, though it will happen).
The modern project was the opposite of these: centralized, secular, power based, all of which led to a new and fractured view of man (Shakespeare saw the change from Medieval to Modern).
There is now an opportunity for the West to think and plan for the coming Digital Paradigm and the humans in that context.
One path is what Rubio and others are articulating: “save” modernity or “refine” the moderns. Won’t work, but there is $ and “power” still in it, just not a future.
The other path is a different view of “morality,” (Scribal/Medieval sensibilities) that leads to something different. Europe has largely forgotten its history/ground. Will it be retrieved under Digital conditions?
The US was created in Modernity. All it knows is the modern.
The growing conflicts are going to be over exactly this, and the US/West’s desire to hold onto parts of the modern.
Digital is creating new attitudes and sensibilities which will then lead to new ideas, institutions, sciences, leaders, etc.
The crux of the Digital Paradigm is: decentralization (obvious), spirituality (obvious), and authority (the West will resist this, though it will happen).
The modern project was the opposite of these: centralized, secular, power based, all of which led to a new and fractured view of man (Shakespeare saw the change from Medieval to Modern).
There is now an opportunity for the West to think and plan for the coming Digital Paradigm and the humans in that context.
One path is what Rubio and others are articulating: “save” modernity or “refine” the moderns. Won’t work, but there is $ and “power” still in it, just not a future.
The other path is a different view of “morality,” (Scribal/Medieval sensibilities) that leads to something different. Europe has largely forgotten its history/ground. Will it be retrieved under Digital conditions?
I confess, I did not watch Rubio speech, although it was praised on free Republic and other places as a speech for the ages, that Marco Rubio was now the greatest secretary of state this country has ever had.
I say that’s a bunch of bunk. When FDR was president, one of the reasons he wanted to be involved in World War II was to break up the imperialism that he felt was outdated, and I suppose replace it with western liberalism. Churchill on the other point was trying to preserve the Empire keep it. He didn’t realize that history was passing him by and that two wars had literally bankrupted the United Kingdom. Post World War II they could not keep the Empire.
And we have Rubio here, preaching that we the United States need to embrace and colonialize the rest of the world and make them vassals to our rule?
Rubio may have part of it, right but I don’t think he quite understands it. The primary purpose of the state since time began has been war. War for the defense of the state and war for the expansion of the state. That in a nutshell is the purpose of government.
But here we are a country hopelessly, drowning in debt and Rubio and his masters, believe that we can reinvent colonialism and assume total control of the world .
These people are absolutely delusional , does he possibly think Russia and China, for instance, are going to just roll over and submit not to mention the rest of BRICS?
No, they are not. They are going to fight for their sovereignty and they are right to rule themselves as they see fit. Regardless of how we think about things. The world has shifted and we must shift with it and that is going to be a multi polar world where we have to fit in..
25 years ago, there was a Russian economist who theorized that the United States would disintegrate because of debt and this was when we only had about 4 trillion in debt. Now we are closing in 40 and in debt think about it we have increased the debt $36 trillion in 25 years.
In any event, this Russian economist said that we would break up into individual countries by region, exactly the same thing that we want to do to Russia, China, and Iran. That is the irony we are going to be the ones that are going to collapse and regionally rebuild. I believe that day is coming sooner rather than later, I give us maybe five more years before the game runs out then what’s gonna happen? The rest of the world will go on and we will sink into the abyss for who knows how long maybe forever.
If you have never read it, I would probably recommend reading the rise and fall of the great nations by Paul Kennedy . it’s an economic treat what happened to all the great empires I believe he wrote that book some years ago, but he was already talking about what was going to happen to the United States as it was inevitable. The sad thing is our for the most part has lasted a little over 80 years not hundreds of years.
We are being led into the desert of isolation and destruction by Donald Trump. Is it possible? He is really the antichrist as far as the United States is concerned. ?
Oswald Spengler pretty accurately predicted the Decline of the West in the early 1920s, and he compares the Decline of the West to the decline of empires throughout history. Our decline as an empire is/was inevitable, for basically the same reasons that other empires have declined and ended; i.e., introduction of money and accompanying greed and corruption, a leadership class divorced from citizens and reality, excess debt and societal collapse due to depravity.
Thank you for your thoughtful post, Stephen. I appreciate your recommendation of Paul Kennedy's book.
You are correct: "We are being led into the desert of isolation and destruction by Donald Trump." DJT and the evil wizards that manipulate him are bringing darkness. We must "Beware of Darkness":
Watch out now
Take care, beware of greedy leaders
They'll take you where you should not go~beware of darkness.....written by George Harrison, 1971
Human beings want to sit on God's throne (words from a clergyman), and DJT, Rubio, and their like-minded, power-hungry, govt leaders and oligarchs are elitist ideologues who look upon themselves as gods.
They look upon the rest of us as sub-human, barbarians. We are all Amalek.
The good thing: Rubio's side is incompetent and repellent. So I don't see it succeeding in his malevolent, dystopian goals.
I heard more of a focus on a return to national sovereignty as opposed to globalism and international organizations. I listened again and still don’t hear a call for a return to colonialism.
I hear restore industrial base, control of borders, keeping culture of countries intact and not being afraid to be proud of one’s country.
See below:
“the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion: that we had entered, quote, “the end of history;” that every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood; that the rules-based global order – an overused term – would now replace the national interest; and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.
… shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized, shipping millions of working and middle-class jobs overseas, and handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals.
…outsourced our sovereignty to international institutions while many nations invested in massive welfare states at the cost of maintaining the ability to defend themselves...
To appease a climate cult, we have imposed energy policies on ourselves that are impoverishing our people, even as our competitors exploit oil and coal and natural gas and anything else – not just to power their economies, but to use as leverage against our own.
And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.
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. ”
Sorry, you're hearing what you want to hear and ignoring the core of the speech that that Trump is actually acting upon. I quoted Rubio explicitly stating that Trump will seek to restore Western dominance, after lauding the age of vastly expanding empires. And that's exactly what Trump is spending virtually all his time doing.
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.
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.
Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West’s age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make. This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you.
A schizophrenic contrast to last year's speech from Vance.
Do not apologize for your “rant!” It’s nothing of the kind! I spent yesterday seething with indignation over Ruse-io’s speech, thinking if “civilization” equals “genocide,” and other delightful equivocations, then doom is our common future. This cold and deceitful technocrat does not speak for me! He has attempted to turn, through pompous oratory, what has been a shambles, a wreck, of any sane, managed and moral foreign policy into world domination. A shameful and devious act! Would the spineless ignorant and supine Euros could see through it.
Rubio spouted what he was told to say by anglozionist globalist one-world govt types who see their grip slipping. Rube-io allowed no glimmer of hope for a world of prosperity for all through dialogue and peaceful cooperation. Instead he spouts a world of future confrontation. It’s all too obvious. Any young man signing up to the conflict du jour deserves a darwin award. We can all start by avoiding commerce with oligarchic businesses, where possible.
"We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world."
We assume that was written by a speechwriter?
That is referring to the Nazis who imbibed their ideology of racial supremacy from the British and their genocidal goal of purifying the human race from "unfit" lower races from American elites, this is detailed in the award winning book "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race" by Edwin Black, a massively award-winning writer. The doctrine of Darwinism was based on the idea that humanity evolved, but it was created right after the British Empire had been forced to end slavery in their empire in 1838 by religious activists. What were the Darwinist's teaching at that time? They taught in all of elite society and their universities that white people were the most evolved of all types of humans, it was the "White Man's Burden" to rule over the world. This was taught in schools in Europe and America until the Nazis made eugenics bad form.
Before WWII the American corporate elites built up German industry after they bought much of it up on the cheap after they destroyed the German economy through the economic war on them after WWI. American leaders then built up the Soviet economy and provided them with a massive infusion of war fighting material to fight the Germans.
In total, the U.S. delivered to the USSR through Lend-Lease: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386 of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans); 11,400 aircraft (of which 4,719 were Bell P-39 Air cobras, 3,414 were Douglas A-20 Havocs and 2,397 were Bell P-63 King cobras) and 1.75 million tons of food. (from wikipedia numbers)
"If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.”
Harry Truman a few years before his presidency, 1941
America could have invaded Europe much earlier than they did, but instead of listening to their generals Roosevelt and Churchill invaded Africa in order to eliminate the French Empire first, they literally attacked the French fleet and killed French sailors. Their excuse was they feared the Germans would take the French Navy, but the French Navy couldn't be taken by the Germans since the Nazi navy was far less capable then the French Navy, the Nazis had concentrated on a land and air force because their goal was the USSR, mainly, that is why they made a deal with the French, they knew they would lose in a naval war. The Germans only occupied northern France and made a deal with the Vichy French government to stay out of the war so they could keep their Navy and their colonies. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUloT3IaTE
So what was the result? America paid Germany and the USSR to fight each other but wanted the Soviets to come out on top--but only after destroying the European economy, then America would come in and "save" Europe by making them dependent on the dollar, on welfare, as they watched Americans buy up European businesses and land on the cheap.
This was literally planned by American elites. That plan was called The War and Peace Studies. It began to be devised 11 days after the start of WWII, Sept 12, 1939. It was researched and written by the Council on Foreign Relations with funding by The Rockefeller Foundation:
"Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs (The official magazine of The Council on Foreign Relations), and Walter H. Mallory, executive director of the CFR, made a trip to the State Department, where they volunteered council resources for a “continuous study of the course of the war and its effects on the United States politically, economically, geographically, and in matters of security and armament.” The conflict, they advised, would involve the United States, and prior preparation was vital, not only militarily, but also in terms of broader foreign policy objectives. The war presented a “grand opportunity” in fact for the United States to emerge as “the premier power in the world.” Assistant Secretary of State George Messersmith, himself a council member, was predictably enthusiastic and gained approval for the plan the same day."
From: American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith, pg 325, citing the personal archives of George Messersmith, Assistant Secretary of State: George S. Messersmith Papers, Memorandum of Conversation, September 12, 1939"
American elites set up the worldwide monetary system at Bretton Woods, NH near the end of WWII — in order to enable their dominance over the world’s economy as much as they thought possible by 1) Making the dollar the reserve currency, and 2) Creating the World Bank, IMF, etc. in a way that the very rich American upper class would be enabled to dominate over the world. When Nixon ended the ability to get gold for dollars in 1971, the Nixon Shock, the new dollar backed monetary system supercharged their ability to economically dominate the world because the dollar became as good as gold — and they were in control of creating and controlling dollars that everyone needed, because 3) They made a deal that they would protect the leaders of the biggest oil producers in the world in the Middle East (aka a protection racket) if they only sold oil for dollars.
Economist Michael Hudson wrote a famous book explaining how Bretton Woods and then the Nixon Shock worked called "Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance." When it first came out, he was asked by top American military leaders to visit them to explain how it worked. Why? Because it is not spoken about in “polite society” aka mainstream media and schools.
"We assume that was written by a speechwriter?
"That is referring to the Nazis ..."
You're correct. Cf. my just published post. It was written by a speechwriter, and I identify that person.
Offensive "White Man's Burden" crap. Would have fit right on the front page of a 1900's British newspaper
UN exists today only to support US taxpayer funded global genocide. US elites used UN to endorse their 2014 violent overthrow of Ukraine's elected government per 2/7/2014 BBC published transcript of Nuland-Pyatt phone call. In the call Nuland announces "Yats is the guy," ie, Yatsenyuk was US choice for next Ukraine Prime Minister: "Nuland: OK…one more wrinkle for you Geoff. [A click can be heard] I can’t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman [United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning?
[[BBC's] Jonathan Marcus:…Efforts to get the UN to play an active role in bolstering a deal; and (as you can see below) the big guns waiting in the wings – US Vice-President Joe Biden clearly being lined up to give private words of encouragement at the appropriate moment.]
Pyatt: Yeah I saw that.
Nuland: OK. He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.
[Jonathan Marcus:…The EU is divided and to some extent hesitant about picking a fight with Moscow….But the US clearly is determined to take a much more activist role.]
Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together….So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing….
Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s [Biden] national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.
Pyatt: OK. Great. Thanks.”
[[BBC's] Jonathan Marcus:…The US is clearly much more involved in trying to broker a deal in Ukraine than it publicly lets on. There is some embarrassment too for the Americans given the ease with which their communications were hacked....]"....https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957#share-tools
Even if it is all true
Even if Rubio is correct on every point
" It took America to do that "
We are bankrupt morally - which probably does not matter to Rubio - but financially
And there is no debate - that Tariffs are coming out of the US Taxpayer pockets
Reported " Americans paid 96% of tariff costs, with only 4% absorbed by foreign exporters"
2025 Kiel Institute
Yale Budget Lab ' $3,800 annual loss per household in purchasing power '
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And Europe is so so bankrupt
Watched Alastair Crook speak about not just the money and weapons GIVEN to Ukraine but all the Loans GUARANTEED by the European Nations
Europe is so so bankrupt - but they will never mention that - it is probably the main reason they keep begging for a better settlement that will likely never come
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Yes.
gusanillo, que dejes la coca, carajo!
Heh! What was his nickname?
Gusano -worm- would be too good for him. A small worm would suit his stature.
I will have to find a photo: Rubio must have horns growing out of his head.
His speech, and your good analysis of it Mark, is overwhelming and yes, alarming.
The label of Fascism came to mind:
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.".....from wordnik.com
Anti-Christian speech--oh yes. This is the dark thinking and the dark people that God tells us to watch out for.
Well done Mark.
A few things: the worldwide adoption of Digital destroyed the Modern world (the 500 years reference). All the modern narratives out there window.
Digital “divides.” The prior Electronic Communication paradigm was about “one.” That is gone.
Three Spheres: West, East, Digital. Think of each as a civilization based on common aspects of language, which leads to shared history and spirituality.
The US was created in Modernity. All it knows is the modern.
The growing conflicts are going to be over exactly this, and the US/West’s desire to hold onto parts of the modern.
Digital is creating new attitudes and sensibilities which will then lead to new ideas, institutions, sciences, leaders, etc.
The crux of the Digital Paradigm is: decentralization (obvious), spirituality (obvious), and authority (the West will resist this, though it will happen).
The modern project was the opposite of these: centralized, secular, power based, all of which led to a new and fractured view of man (Shakespeare saw the change from Medieval to Modern).
There is now an opportunity for the West to think and plan for the coming Digital Paradigm and the humans in that context.
One path is what Rubio and others are articulating: “save” modernity or “refine” the moderns. Won’t work, but there is $ and “power” still in it, just not a future.
The other path is a different view of “morality,” (Scribal/Medieval sensibilities) that leads to something different. Europe has largely forgotten its history/ground. Will it be retrieved under Digital conditions?
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The US was created in Modernity. All it knows is the modern.
The growing conflicts are going to be over exactly this, and the US/West’s desire to hold onto parts of the modern.
Digital is creating new attitudes and sensibilities which will then lead to new ideas, institutions, sciences, leaders, etc.
The crux of the Digital Paradigm is: decentralization (obvious), spirituality (obvious), and authority (the West will resist this, though it will happen).
The modern project was the opposite of these: centralized, secular, power based, all of which led to a new and fractured view of man (Shakespeare saw the change from Medieval to Modern).
There is now an opportunity for the West to think and plan for the coming Digital Paradigm and the humans in that context.
One path is what Rubio and others are articulating: “save” modernity or “refine” the moderns. Won’t work, but there is $ and “power” still in it, just not a future.
The other path is a different view of “morality,” (Scribal/Medieval sensibilities) that leads to something different. Europe has largely forgotten its history/ground. Will it be retrieved under Digital conditions?
I confess, I did not watch Rubio speech, although it was praised on free Republic and other places as a speech for the ages, that Marco Rubio was now the greatest secretary of state this country has ever had.
I say that’s a bunch of bunk. When FDR was president, one of the reasons he wanted to be involved in World War II was to break up the imperialism that he felt was outdated, and I suppose replace it with western liberalism. Churchill on the other point was trying to preserve the Empire keep it. He didn’t realize that history was passing him by and that two wars had literally bankrupted the United Kingdom. Post World War II they could not keep the Empire.
And we have Rubio here, preaching that we the United States need to embrace and colonialize the rest of the world and make them vassals to our rule?
Rubio may have part of it, right but I don’t think he quite understands it. The primary purpose of the state since time began has been war. War for the defense of the state and war for the expansion of the state. That in a nutshell is the purpose of government.
But here we are a country hopelessly, drowning in debt and Rubio and his masters, believe that we can reinvent colonialism and assume total control of the world .
These people are absolutely delusional , does he possibly think Russia and China, for instance, are going to just roll over and submit not to mention the rest of BRICS?
No, they are not. They are going to fight for their sovereignty and they are right to rule themselves as they see fit. Regardless of how we think about things. The world has shifted and we must shift with it and that is going to be a multi polar world where we have to fit in..
25 years ago, there was a Russian economist who theorized that the United States would disintegrate because of debt and this was when we only had about 4 trillion in debt. Now we are closing in 40 and in debt think about it we have increased the debt $36 trillion in 25 years.
In any event, this Russian economist said that we would break up into individual countries by region, exactly the same thing that we want to do to Russia, China, and Iran. That is the irony we are going to be the ones that are going to collapse and regionally rebuild. I believe that day is coming sooner rather than later, I give us maybe five more years before the game runs out then what’s gonna happen? The rest of the world will go on and we will sink into the abyss for who knows how long maybe forever.
If you have never read it, I would probably recommend reading the rise and fall of the great nations by Paul Kennedy . it’s an economic treat what happened to all the great empires I believe he wrote that book some years ago, but he was already talking about what was going to happen to the United States as it was inevitable. The sad thing is our for the most part has lasted a little over 80 years not hundreds of years.
We are being led into the desert of isolation and destruction by Donald Trump. Is it possible? He is really the antichrist as far as the United States is concerned. ?
Oswald Spengler pretty accurately predicted the Decline of the West in the early 1920s, and he compares the Decline of the West to the decline of empires throughout history. Our decline as an empire is/was inevitable, for basically the same reasons that other empires have declined and ended; i.e., introduction of money and accompanying greed and corruption, a leadership class divorced from citizens and reality, excess debt and societal collapse due to depravity.
Thank you for your thoughtful post, Stephen. I appreciate your recommendation of Paul Kennedy's book.
You are correct: "We are being led into the desert of isolation and destruction by Donald Trump." DJT and the evil wizards that manipulate him are bringing darkness. We must "Beware of Darkness":
Watch out now
Take care, beware of greedy leaders
They'll take you where you should not go~beware of darkness.....written by George Harrison, 1971
All you say here points to the fact that we are being run by a gang of hopeless ideologues, blind to reality.
Human beings want to sit on God's throne (words from a clergyman), and DJT, Rubio, and their like-minded, power-hungry, govt leaders and oligarchs are elitist ideologues who look upon themselves as gods.
They look upon the rest of us as sub-human, barbarians. We are all Amalek.
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when psychopaths become the majority, they stop pretending