Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great

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resh from toppling the president of Venezuela and taking control of the world’s largest oil reserves, the Trump administration’s top diplomat arrived at the Munich security conference on Saturday with a rather new and very disturbing message for European governments.

Empire is great. Empire is back. Empire is American.

The US secretary of state delivered what can only be described as a 22-minute ode to empire. A love letter to conquest and colonialism. A proud defense of the West’s territorial expansion.