• Super Admin
• 08 Mar, 2026

In his historic address at the 2026 Munich Security Conference on February 14, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio helped give us a glimpse into the seething minds and messianic worldviews of those who lead the US today. He was giddy with excitement over every hyperbole he uttered to that august gathering. The audience was Lily-White, and the subject of discourse, at least from the Rubio perspective, was how to regain White consensus and eventually recreate the dominance the Western Hemisphere had been used to for decades, particularly since slavery, industrialisation, colonialism, and the two world wars. As he launched into a panegyric over the West, as he excoriated the rest of the world whom he described as hordes of barbarians, and as he encapsulated and attributed the whole of human progress to the West, there were no signs of discomfort among his audience with his errant historical perspectives, nor anger at his sometimes subtle but nevertheless guileful idolisation of racism and civilisational superiority, and certainly no hint of hesitation whatsoever in hearing him legitimise Western bigotry and reactionary foreign policy. In 1925, after his stint at Landsberg Prison for high treason, German leader Adolf Hitler published his book Mein Kampf or My Struggle, a thoroughly racist autobiographical manifesto that outlined the blueprint for National Socialism (Nazi) and called on the German people to seek Lebensraum or living space. Europe had in Donald Trump's first term proved unamenable to his whimsical and extremist views about virtually everything, from race to religion, and from dictatorship of which he was deeply enamoured to democracy which he scoffed at very badly. Antagonised and sometimes mystified, the staid European leaders struggled to understand and decipher Mr Trump and the direction in which he was cajoling a US that seemed at once beguiled and obstreperous. In his second term, which also began like the first dissonantly and cantankerously, Europe had retreated into its shell and tried to keep its distance from the mercurial US president. To rally them to the US side in a manner shorn of the crudity of the American president, Mr Rubio attempted mid-last month to set the records straight, anchored the relationship between the US and Europe on shared history which he lionised, brutally put down the United Nations (UN) as ineffectual, denounced the rules-based order as deceitful, and then went on to inspire the continent to be proud of their centuries of accomplishments which he considered unprecedented. Mr Rubio also eulogised the world wars the West fought and the triumphs that followed, but suggested that the reunification of Germany led to many delusions. As he put it, some of the delusions are "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." He snorted violently that allowing mass migration "...was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history. And it has cost us (Western Hemisphere) dearly." He did not spare climate activists whom he described as cultic, or the "unprecedented wave of mass migration" which he said "threatened the cohesion of our (Western) societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. With one sweeping paragraph he signposted the Trumpian and perhaps American view of multiculturalism as farsighted, and insisted that the West was "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 civilisation to which we have fallen heir." The problem is that apart from repudiating the march of progress and providing a facile analysis of human interactions over millennial, his statements are mere regurgitation of the rubric of Nazism. His White audience applauded him in Munich, for who knows how deeply and in how many secret hearts such isolationist and supremacist sentiments still run very deep. But worse was still to come in Mr Rubio's address, including his eulogies on his Spanish ancestry. At a point, showing deep exasperations, he dismissed the UN as irrelevant to the world's needs, but failed to mention what part the Trump presidency has played in undermining that institution, nor the ludicrousness of establishing an insular and narcissistic Board of Peace heading for nowhere. Thereafter he proceeded to glorify war and bloodshed and composed soft hymns to the recent violations of the sovereignties of many countries. He justified every invasion, accused China of engaging in rapid arms build-up, and described the former Soviet Union as an evil empire. It is obvious that the collapse of the bipolar world has in effect enabled the irresponsibility of a unipolar world. The Munich address was meant to rally the entire Western Hemisphere against all others; it did more than that. It revealed closet racism inspired by White prejudice and bigotry, and it also revealed the utter shamelessness of its purveyors, like Mr Rubio with his dubious analyses, and the more eclectic Mr Trump with his chaotic, injurious and boastful rationalisations. Hear Mr Rubio at length as he rallies America's European allies, and draw your own conclusions: "This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilisation, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it. And this is why we do not want allies to rationalise the broken status quo, rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it. For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do not seek to separate, but to revitalise an old friendship and renew the greatest civilisation in human history. What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognises that what has ailed our societies is not just a set of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency. An alliance that we want is one that is not paralysed into inaction by fear. Fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology. Instead, we want an alliance that boldly races into the future. And the only fear we have is the fear of the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier for our children. An alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests, and to preserve the freedom of action that allows us to shape our own destiny, not one that exists to operate a global welfare state and atone for the purported sins of past generations. An alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained, or subordinated to systems beyond its control." Mr Rubio's distasteful peroration is a wake-up call to the rest of the world, a world now being called upon to grapple with a dangerous reincarnation of disguised and polished Nazism. Pay attention to some of his words: they don't want to be "shackled by guilt and shame...are heirs of a great and noble civilization...defend (our) freedom of action...not an alliance that exists to atone for the purported sins of past generations..." etc. This verbiage is truly dismaying and the American Secretary of State, like the equally boastful Mr Trump now in his dotage, believes the world has never seen a civilisation like the West, and will not see the like ever again, and that this civilisational nobility entitled it to the worst atrocities it could dream of or perpetrate. But the world won't endure this atrocious boastfulness and irresponsibility any more than it endured Babylon, Persia, or Rome. His address justified repression, White repression, and seeks to exculpate repressive and genocidal Americo-European empire builders of the atrocities of wiping off indigenous populations or the brutality and expropriation of colonialism. Reading between the lines in the address, it can be gleaned that Mr Rubio might in fact be one of the philosophers of the Trump presidency, seeing especially how he seeks to systematise the Trump Doctrine, refine it beyond the crude confines of the president himself, and deploy it as a body of thought for world domination and humiliation of whole peoples. The problem, however, is that Mr Rubio is himself an amateur and bigoted imperial thinker. If the far more gifted and educated Neoconservatives (Neocons) who advised the equally urbane ex-president George W. Bush misconceived and misapplied the building blocks of the New American Century, the ideological and geopolitical doctrine by which they wished to influence and even lead the world, it is unlikely that the coarser and clearly bigoted thinkers of the Trump presidency would leave any enduring legacy other than their anarchic interventions in Venezuela, Iran, or any other place be it potentially Greenland, Cuba, Nigeria, DR Congo, etc. Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/marco-rubios-munich-address-evokes-mein-kampf/