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Here's a take by Alexander Mercouris of The Duran, from the automated trascript at Youtube:

This was the most nakedly imperialistic speech that an American Secretary of State has given since I think the foundation of the republic in the 1780s. Perhaps there was an exception, which is the Theodore Roosevelt period, before the first world war and all of that, but I mean this is absolute naked imperialism. It was, you know, that the West has been in decline, but that it has now (to) reverse its decline. That the way to do this is basically for everybody to get behind the United States. That the United States is going to be utterly aggressive from this point forward. And that we can forget all about liberalism, globalism, all those nice fancy words. They've served their purpose. They don't really mean anything anymore. For it's raw power and that's all it is. And we're in this great enterprise to reestablish the empire in the strongest possible way. Using every tool at our disposal... You know, violence if we have to, military power, definitely economic coercion if that's what works. And we're going to do it for naked self-interest to preserve the West. We are not really any longer there to act as missionaries, to pretend as the rest of the world or even to ourselves that we are doing it for some greater, higher motive. Now that that is how the speech I have to say read to me.

Obviously he didn't put it quite as savagely as that but that was basically the meaning. And there was this extraordinary passage in which he compared the state of the west today and the state of the west before the second world war, when the West was embarked, you know, was still engaged in vast imperial enterprises, when the world was, you know, covered by European colonial empires and he almost spoke as if the dismantling of those empires because they were symptoms of the decline of Europe and of the West was a bad thing. Completely ignoring the fact, by the way, that it was the United States that was instrumental to a great extent, not entirely or not even principally, but it was instrumental in a great to a great extent in dismantling those empires.

Now, I have to say, not only was this, in my opinion, a savagely imperialist speech, it was also a complete betrayal of the MAGA American first non-interventionist principles that Donald Trump won election on back in 2024. Perhaps by now we should not be surprised about that.

But I have to also say that to me it looked completely utopian, utterly fantastic, as detached from reality as anything we've heard from the classical neocons, even more so perhaps. Maybe the United States could have entertained these fantastic ideas at the peak moment of its power in the 1940s. But today, when it is massively in debt, when it is de-industrializing itself, when it no longer accounts for such a major part of the global economy, I mean to me it seemed to be completely unreal. Anyway, that was my preliminary view of it.

There's more where that came from, such as an explanation why all the elite Euroscum applauded Rubio, and were sad later (see, The Faces Of Kaja Kallas).

Thanks Brickmuppet for the reminder.

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