Adeclaration for recolonisation could not get more explicit than the United States’ (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech to the European leaders during this year’s annual Munich Security Conference (13 February 2026). This speech follows sustained actions by the US exercising global dominance in strategic areas. The recent targets have been Cuba and Iran. In his speech, Rubio extolled five centuries of colonial expansionism, colonial settlements, “superior” culture, “vast empires,” and lamented the West’s “terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings…”1 He proposed imperial resurrection led by the US and asked Europe to follow the imperial cause of this “common interest.”