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The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.
But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down.
The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest American military humiliation in modern history. A billion-dollar new embassy was abandoned. Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new infrastructure at the huge Bagram Airbase was dumped.
We still do not know how many billions of dollars of sophisticated new weapons were left to the Taliban and now are making their way through global terrorists’ marts.
Yet, in our skedaddle, the LGBTQ flag still flew high from our new Kabul embassy. A George Floyd mural was prominent on city streets.
And gender studies programs – to the tune of $787 million in American subsidies – were showcased at Kabul University, in one of the most conservative Islamic countries in the world.
Rainbow flags and Black Lives Matter banners have hung from our embassy in South Korea.
Such partisan cultural activism is a diplomatic first.
The woke Left has now weaponized the country’s diplomatic missions abroad to advance highly partisan and controversial agendas that can offend their hosts, and do not represent the majority of American voters at home.
American foreign policy toward other nations seems now to hinge on their positions on transgender people, LGBTQ promotion, abortion, climate change, and an array of woke issues from using multiple pronouns on passports to showcasing transgender ambassadors.
The Biden Administration in January 2022 stopped the EastMed pipeline. That joint effort of our allies Cyprus, Greece, and Israel sought to bring much needed clean-burning Mediterranean natural gas to southern Europe.
Apparently, our diplomats felt it violated our own New Green Deal orthodoxies. So we imperialists interfered to destroy a vital project of our closest allies.
The White House manifesto called the “National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality” offers a blueprint for how to massage nations abroad to accept our values that are increasingly at odds with much of the world’s.
Do Americans really believe that embracing drag-queen shows at military bases, abortion to the moment of birth, transgender men competing in women’s sports, and the promised effort to ban the internal combustion engine are effective ways to ensure good relations with the United States?
No wonder the Biden Administration’s new cultural imperialism is proving disastrous for a variety of reasons.
One, these imperialistic and chauvinistic agendas are pushed abroad at the very time the respect for the U.S. military is at an all-time low. It was humiliated in Afghanistan. It is now unable to recruit sufficient qualified soldiers. Its stocks of critical weapons are depleted.
The Pentagon leadership of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, along with Joe Biden, do not radiate competence.
But they do exude woke pieties.
While we offend Middle East oil exporters and Central Europeans, China allies with Russia and Iran. India and Turkey triangulate away from the United States. Sanctimonious hectoring while appearing weak is a bad combination.
Two, these warped standards are incoherent. Is an abortion-on-demand, totalitarian China therefore an ally? How could we damn supposedly non-woke Saudi Arabia as we begged it to pump more of its non-green oil before the 2022 midterms?
Some of our most loyal allies are in Eastern Europe – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania. These countries have experienced traumatic histories on the front lines against Islamic Ottoman expansionism, czarist and Soviet aggression, and German Nazi bullying and invasion.
They are democratic and pro-American. Yet they are now targeted by our woke imperialists because they remain steadfast as the most religious and traditional of our European allies.
Yet these nations would be more likely to dispatch credible forces for NATO’s defense than many of our left-wing, woke, and militarily less capable Western European nations.
Three, most of the 7.9 billion people in the world are not woke. They are aspiring to obtain a modicum of the luxury and affluence taken for granted in America.
The rest of the planet worries whether it will have enough food, energy, security, and shelter to live one more day. For most, the incessant, woke virtue-signaling from affluent Americans comes across as the whiny bullying of pampered, self-righteous – and increasingly neurotic – imperialists.
Four, traditionally the party that controls the State Department does not politically weaponize its embassies with wedge issues that have not won majority support among Americans.
Such abject politicalization rattles and alienates foreign nations. They do not want to be drawn into the American Left’s internal propaganda efforts that they know are bitterly controversial inside the United States.
How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried “American imperialism” are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.
Biden’s policies for America are autogenocidal.
Excellent article.
Have to say that’s a considerable understatement. Hanson hit it out of the park. Again.
It’s by Victor Davis Hanson, his articles are always intelligent and thoughtful.
I don’t believe it’s about America. I believe it’s about the new world order, the world economic forum and the world pHarma organisation and the global financial system and the international community all gathered together in the world unelected UNITED NATIONS.
The UN made of 195 nations who donate to its upkeep. The biggest donators get the biggest influence and the vast majority of the 195 nations are communist or islamic dictatorships.
Spoken with truth and loyalty to America.
Thank you, Sir for being a true Blue American who loves his country and it’s people.
And to think ADH was a registered Democrat.
He still might be, but as he hasn’t voted a Democrat ticket in decades, I doubt he still is.
Patriots get the brilliant, logic-based authors.
Flaming liberals get idiots that pen bullshit like “It takes a Village”.
(*Biden claims to be writing a book. Only problem is that he’s never read one.)
Biden said, “Because I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people. I’m more experienced than anybody has gone through the office and I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/05/05/biden-on-his-age-i-know-more-than-the-vast-majority-of-people/
He should spontaneously burst into flames after saying that. He doesn’t even know how many grandchildren he has let alone much else.
That was a seriously nauseating suck-up & choreographed interview.
Contrast that with how Trump was bullshitted by that dim-bulb bitch, Leslie Stahl.
(She correct the record & offer Trump an apology over her lying about Hunter’s laptop yet?)
Wow. What amazing lack of self-awareness.
A basic understanding of the Bolshevik coup d’etat in Russia from 1917 until, say, 1940 will give you the historical blueprint the radical Dems are working from ; everything then comes into high relief . It’s not that the Dems are all clued in on Marxist history , knowing their Kamenevs, Zinovievs and Kivovs ; they aren’t, but they have a similar leftist frame of mind that naturally works in a particular groupthink kind of way that makes them sooo predictable
AS such the January 6th ”insurrection” becomes a kind of ”Murder of Kirov” moment that can be used as a pretext to launch a ”great purge ” against the opposition and Biden becomes a latter day Kalinin , a titular figurehead leader who disguises the real power behind the scenes, Stalin A K A Obama-Rice. The Dems are a child-like parody of the former Soviet Union with the FBI/ DOJ becoming a lightweight version of the NKVD and Ministry of Truth ! TRump naturally becomes Trotsky, an ”enemy of the people” while the MSM become Pravda !
In some ways the Dem Bolsheviks are more radical than the original, insomuch, the Biden regime had the LGBTQ -George Floyd flags flying from their embassies in Afghanistan and even South KOrea, both very conservative countries ; talk about being out of touch with reality ?
The Dems are now trying to abolish the sexes, even Lenin would have thought that insane. They are alienating, nay outraging, the majority of folks in the developing world who are culturally conservative ; as such an alliance is forming against us of Russia-China-Iran who see us as decadent, degenerate and worthy of contempt!
Much of the rest of the world looks at us with disgust. Nobody looks at us with respect.
Add to that the nations that see our dollars becoming next to worthless. We have spread our debt across the industrial world and everyone sees it but us. BRICS and other nations are running like hell from the U.S dollar and who can blame them? They see the writing on the wall and want out of a monetary system that creates money out of thin air.
At last somebody in effect admits that ever since communist Obama was elected president (!)
the USA is being deliberately destroyed from within. Are we really so afraid of them burning down all the cities that we mustn’t even think that? Must true Americans survive only by believing that daily new atrocity is now normal?
This is foreign policy without any realization thAt American leadership not woke pieties keep the peace
If Biden were smarter, he’d be a candidate for the Anti-Christ. However, should he bang his head and suddenly become intelligent, he’s surely evil enough to qualify as the A-C. There are also a lot of evil people that support what he does including practically the entire Democrat party.
Bidens polls continue to tank as he just continues to act like Dictator and t he M.S. Media Lemmings following him off the cliff
We have a kakistocracy, a government by the least able or worst citizens.
I would say more simply, that too many assholes are in power.
And a kleptocracy. Rule by those who are industriously looting everything they can get their hands on, devouring the corpse of a once-great nation.
As always from VDH, a brilliant perspicacious analysis from one of America’s greatest thinkers.
We are way past the usual back and forth of two-party politics. When are the People going to wake up and overthrow this evil cabal.
What’s the point of the Second Amendment if you’re too gutless to use it?
It may come to that but first we’re going to “fix” the election process by handing it over to the fed govt. /sarc/
There would be no great reasons for the Taliban and the people of that country to despise America than to see the Rainbow Flag on top of the US Embassy in their country as the Mullahs just have to point to it and ask the conservative muslim population if this is what they want for their children..
Drag Queens and girly boys.
Though the Tali Boys have their own version of wee Bachi Boys but for confused reasons inside their sick ass minds that is not considered as homosexual…Go figure…
Its a sick World we have today and thankfully I live far far away from the Western World and have no desire to return to it… ever again.
Im just watching the wheels come off.
Hey, is it any wonder the Mo s lems want to kill us? I want to kill us having to live in a country that has become thoroughly sexually deviant. I can’t even wrap my head around the gross sexual abuse and grooming of young children through drag queen shows and transgender propaganda. You know. there is a reason most cultures historically have driven sexual deviancy underground. They are dangerous, dangerous people. Period.
Biden is such a total airhead nothing working in his head at all and the Liberal pinheads just keep on being total idiots