{"id":66542,"date":"2026-02-17T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/forget-maga-welcome-to-mega-make-empire-great-again-mehdi-hasan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:55:58","slug":"forget-maga-welcome-to-mega-make-empire-great-again-mehdi-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/forget-maga-welcome-to-mega-make-empire-great-again-mehdi-hasan\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again | Mehdi Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from toppling the president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/venezuela\">Venezuela<\/a> and taking control of the world\u2019s largest oil reserves, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s top diplomat arrived at the Munich security conference on Saturday with a rather new and very disturbing message for European governments.<\/p>\n<p>Empire is great. Empire is back. Empire is <em>American<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Hasan is the editor-in-chief and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/zeteo.com\/\">Zeteo<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/17\/maga-marco-rubio-munich-security-conference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great Fresh from toppling the president of Venezuela and taking control of the world\u2019s largest oil reserves, the Trump administration\u2019s top diplomat arrived at the Munich security conference on Saturday with a rather new and very disturbing message &#8230; <a title=\"Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again | Mehdi Hasan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/forget-maga-welcome-to-mega-make-empire-great-again-mehdi-hasan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again | Mehdi Hasan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}