The export of American culture has long been one of the nation’s greatest values of nonviolent power. But rather than using this to advance Western values and American interests, the Biden administration is promoting an awakened ideology. The consequences of foreign policy can be catastrophic, writes A In The Wall Street Journal It was published in a joint opinion piece by John Ratcliffe, former director of US intelligence, and Cliff Sims, former deputy director of intelligence for strategy and communications.
To “promote diversity and inclusion of minorities,” the US Department of State funds “transvestite theater productions” in Ecuador through cultural grants. Purpose of grants according to official documents
Support the achievement of United States foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and advance national security.
It is not clear how effeminate performance increases US national security or advances the country’s interests – let alone why US taxes are paid for all this. Meanwhile, a Chinese consortium controls the two largest copper mines in Ecuador. The authors write that drag theater does a lot of good when they can’t find enough copper for basic industrial work.
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This moment of diplomatic folly pairs well with the request made by the Biden administration earlier this year, in which it requested $2.6 billion (1,070 billion forints) to export the ideology of vigilance to the world in the form of “gender equality.”
Hungarian Embassy at the level of primary school students
The authors also consider one example of the State Department’s “humiliation of wake-up values” issued by the US Embassy in Budapest “Who Said?” He posted a test on Twitter in which Hungarians were asked to guess whether Vladimir Putin or a Hungarian politician had made different statements.
An “outright barbaric ideology”—one quote—“origins from American universities and denies all the values created by humanity” began. Hungary’s deputy prime minister said this “allegedly despicable statement,” which many Americans agree with, according to the book, was ” This is an intellectual crimeWhich, according to the US Embassy, considers him a global pariah. ”
These, according to Ratcliffe and Sims, are elementary school festivals, not projections of American power. If the United States has problems with foreign leaders, it should deal with them through mature diplomacy. Alternatively, their diplomatic efforts under President Biden, a “self-proclaimed foreign policy expert,” can be summed up as “the one we don’t like is Putin.”
Hungary has strengthened NATO’s eastern flank by deploying military forces after Russia invaded Ukraine and this year has taken in large numbers of Ukrainian refugees. But rather than encouraging Hungary to continue to advance these efforts, the Biden administration is mocking its leaders for their legitimate aversion to the ideology of awakened American universities, they said.
During the Trump administration, Sims asked the Ambassador of the Five Eyes Alliance (The Five Eyes is an intelligence cooperation group whose members include Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States – ed.), why is he confident that his country will stand by the United States even in the face of increasing Chinese aggression. Answer: Because of values.
Awakening ideology only confuses allies
According to the authors, the thought woke up It frustrates and confuses alliesand undermining US power by attacking the very values on which America was built. To restore America’s role in the world, they must lead by example. American foreign policy must have a moral core as strong as the American people. Their leaders must understand that their strength abroad comes from their best traditions at home – strong families, patriotism, endurance and determination, and an army that their soldiers and compatriots can be proud of.
Under the Trump administration, their national security strategy focused on the values of “principled realism,” recognizing that “the American way of life cannot be imposed on others,” but asserting that “promoting American principles spreads peace and prosperity.” These American principles included respect for national sovereignty, a realistic view of global competition and the limits of American capabilities, and “full confidence in America’s ability to be a force for good in the world.”
According to the authors, the traditions of America have made their culture the envy of the world. They also helped the United States form alliances and win wars when necessary. Submission to ideologies like clouds only shows the alienation of allies. It is time to stop “imposing a destructive ideology” on the rest of the world and restore rationality to American diplomacy, they wrote.
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