War on Iran: How the West is shaping a dystopian era

War on Iran: How the West is shaping a dystopian era Submitted by Marco Carnelos on Wed, 04/15/2026 - 16:11 Rubio speaks openly of revitalising colonialism, as allied states acknowledge the demise of the rules-based world order US Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on as President Donald Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House in Washington, DC, on 7 October 2025 (Jim Watson/AFP) On Until recently, the EU high representative for foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, owned the record as the western official with the poorest knowledge of the history of World War Two, having had the brazen audacity - or the unforgivable lack of awareness - to claim last year that it was news to her that Russia and China had played a crucial role in its outcome. But even those comments paled in comparison to the February speech by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He audaciously told the Munich Security Conference: “For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding - its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.