Rubio vs AOC: Different Strategies, Same Empire [Preview]

At the Munich Security Conference, Marco Rubio said the quiet part out loud.

No more “rules-based order.” No more liberal pretense. Just open coercion.

After Gaza — after a genocide livestreamed for the world — U.S. empire isn’t even pretending anymore.

In this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek is joined by Dylan Saba — attorney with Palestine Legal and co-host of Turbulence — to unpack what this moment represents:

• Gaza as the capstone of the War on Terror

• The return of gunboat diplomacy

• Why imperial “decline” means escalation, not collapse

• Fascist consolidation at home under Trump

• The Democratic Party’s containment of dissent

• Why the U.S. still lacks a real left foreign policy

This isn’t a deviation in American foreign policy.

It’s its logical endpoint.

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