Por Michael Leonardi
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When Marco Rubio took the stage at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2026, and delivered his sputtering paean to “Western civilization,” the room of European leaders rose in a prolonged, obedient standing ovation. That applause was not for diplomacy; it was sycophantic submission, a pathetic spectacle of vassals cheering their own subjugation and complicity. Rubio’s speech—framed as a call for transatlantic renewal—was a manifesto for the Fourth Reich: a fascist resurgence rooted in European whiteness, ethnocentrism, and racist fearmongering, all under the false pretext of defending “civilization” against imagined barbarians. The ovation exposed the rotten core of the alliance—complicit in neocolonial conquest and genocide, desperate to perpetuate racial supremacy, and terrified of the Global South’s rise.
Rubio’s core thesis was brutally simple: the West is “one civilization,” bound by “centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry.” He exalted it as the source of “the rule of law, the universities, and the scientific revolution,” invoking “Mozart and Beethoven, Dante and Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Da Vinci”—a litany of European icons that conveniently omits the Enlightenment’s debt to Islamic scholarship, the Renaissance’s plunder from colonized lands, and the centuries of genocide, slavery, and exploitation that built Western wealth. His invocation of “the vaulted ceilings of the Sistine Chapel and the towering spires of the great cathedral in Cologne” as testaments to “faith in God” is ethnocentric crusader rhetoric, reducing non-Christian civilizations to footnotes while justifying endless domination in the name of “civilization.”
The racism deepened with Rubio’s assault on mass migration. He decried it as a “crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West,” threatening “the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.” This is the language of white replacement theory—pure ethnocentrism, framing non-white migrants as an existential threat to European purity. Controlling borders, he insisted, is “a fundamental act of national sovereignty,” not xenophobia or hate. Yet in the context of Fortress Europe—where migrants drown by the thousands in the Mediterranean while Italy attempts to criminalizes rescues and the rest of Europe shrugs—this is neocolonial gatekeeping: the West hoards its stolen wealth, repels the dispossessed it created through centuries of theft and colonialism, and labels them invaders.
Rubio’s critique of international institutions revealed the neocolonial disdain for global equality. He mocked the UN as “powerless,” crediting “American leadership” for “solving” crises in Gaza, Ukraine, Iran, and Venezuela—through bombs, special forces, and unilateral force. The UN “has no answers and has played virtually no role,” he sneered, because it dares to hold the West accountable. This rejection of “moral equivalence” is the essence of Western exceptionalism: rules for thee, but not for me. The speech barely mentioned Gaza’s ongoing devastation—over 600 Palestinians killed since the supposed October 2025 “ceasefire”—because the point was never peace; it was supremacy.
Rubio has firmly stated that the US is doing all it can to neuter International law and legal institutions like the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, with the lunatic and delusional Evangelical zionist and American ambassador to Israel, Michael Huckabee, stating that: “the United States is taking active steps to ensure that the nefarious International legal institutions are stopped from enforcing international law on those defending their country and cause,” completely disregarding the findings of probable genocide in Gaza, because according to the beliefs of these zeralots, the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout what they call “Judea and Samaria,” is a just and righteous cause ordained by the lord.
Europe’s response was predictably spineless. The standing ovation from leaders like Germany’s Friedrich Merz and France’s Emmanuel Macron was Europe’s confession: it never truly repudiated colonialism; it merely rebranded it, outsourced it, and cloaked it in human-rights rhetoric until the mask could be dropped again. Germany arms Israel while Annalena Baerbock—now President of the UN General Assembly—cloaks massacres in “self-defense” rhetoric; France, Austria, Italy, and Germany team with Zionist Israeli front groups like UN watch to slander Francesca Albanese as “scandalous” for exposing the truth; Italy ships Leonardo weapons components to Israel while the Meloni government pushes IHRA laws to criminalize BDS and apartheid critiques. This is the new fascist international united in supremacist delusions, unleashing repression across the western world while threatening wars and conquest abroad.
The growing repression is the Fourth Reich’s signature. From ICE’s cold-blooded executions in Minnesota—killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti in broad daylight—to crackdowns on dissent across Europe, the noose tightens. In Germany, pro-Palestine protests are met with brutal police violence and labeled as “antisemitic”; in France, BDS activists face jail time; in Italy, Meloni’s security decrees criminalize road blockades and solidarity actions; In the UK the British government promises further persecution of Palestine Action despite recent court rulings in their favor. This is the machinery of neo-fascism: silence the critics, arm the oppressors, and call it “civilization.”
Trump’s fraudulent “Board of Peace” is the crowning farce—a criminal real estate cartel of genocide-supporting Zionists masquerading as diplomacy. A cabal of 25 countries and an executive board stacked with Jared Kushner, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tony Blair, Marc Rowan, Ajay Banga, and others, it requires $1 billion donations for membership renewal and grants Trump “chairman for life” powers. Israel joined on February 11, 2026, during Netanyahu’s Washington visit—defying ICC warrants for genocide. The board denies Palestinians any agency or right to self-determination, reducing them to passive subjects for “reconstruction” without sovereignty or justice. It is colonialism 2.0: pay-to-play empire, with Gaza’s land and resources up for grabs under the guise of peace.
The Fourth Reich is not a conspiracy theory. It is the fusion of Western colonialism, neo-fascism, and Zionist settler supremacy into a global machine that starves Gaza, steals Venezuela’s resources, threatens war on Iran, silences dissent, and dismantles international law. Rubio’s Munich manifesto is its clarion call: a false pretext of “Western civilization” to justify genocidal conquest, racism, and ethnocentrism. The standing ovation was pathetic, obedient, sycophantic—Europe’s vassals cheering their own chains. For those of us sane enough to recognize what is happening, and we are in the millions around the world, continued organized resistance is our only option. The ovation in Munich may have echoed through the hall, but the voices of the oppressed will echo longer. Empires fall. The people rise.
Michael Leonardi lives in Italy and can be reached at michaeleleonardi@gmail.com
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