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The New Ugly Americans
American Greatness ^ | 3 May, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/04/2023 4:18:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried “American imperialism” are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.

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 the transgendered, LGBTQ acceptance, abortion, climate change, and an array of woke issues from using multiple pronouns on passports to showcasing transgendered 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

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ineptocracy; leftism; vdh; wokeism
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1 posted on 05/04/2023 4:18:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I bet the whole world is disgusted with the wokesim we are dishing out.


2 posted on 05/04/2023 4:18:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

vdh ping


3 posted on 05/04/2023 4:19:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The USA run by woke mentally ill idiots armed with nuclear weapons is a threat to the world.


4 posted on 05/04/2023 4:21:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

Have you looked at the western bits of the whole world lately?

Their Deep States are doing the same damn things ours is.

None of this is a coinkydink.


5 posted on 05/04/2023 4:24:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: MtnClimber

They are... And rest assured it will haunt us for years to come. And, naturally the left will blame the right and get away with it....


6 posted on 05/04/2023 4:25:01 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: MtnClimber

This CRAP is NOT “WOKE”...it’s TOTALLY IMMORAL!!


7 posted on 05/04/2023 4:33:15 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

We are the Whore of Babylon


8 posted on 05/04/2023 4:33:46 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Also known as the “Great Satan.” If the shoe fits...


9 posted on 05/04/2023 4:39:45 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Yet, in our skedaddle, the LGBTQ flag still flew high from our new Kabul embassy.”

That is the ultimate aim of all of our foreign policy. The Swamp remains conspicuously undrained.


10 posted on 05/04/2023 4:41:43 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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the LGBTQ flag still flew high from our new Kabul embassy

After the Afghanistan debacle, everyone knew who the weak horse was.

11 posted on 05/04/2023 4:43:58 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: MtnClimber

When our embassies are attacked in the future, and lives lost, I will have a different view. The employees are indeed spies and propagandist of the worst sort.


12 posted on 05/04/2023 4:44:30 AM PDT by healy61 (.)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if they accurately associate these perversions with nazi era sexual deviance and totalitarian agendas.


13 posted on 05/04/2023 4:49:20 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: MtnClimber

We are the new Soviet Union. The antithesis of liberty. A blackhole swallowing the human race. In short, we have perhaps the one of the worst governments in the world right now.


14 posted on 05/04/2023 4:50:33 AM PDT by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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To: Codeflier

” In short, we have perhaps the one of the worst governments in the world right now.”

To paraphrase Will Rogers:
We have the best government money can buy.

I would add more, but fear of our government prevents me from it.


15 posted on 05/04/2023 5:08:06 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: Tupelo

We’re a kakistocracy.


16 posted on 05/04/2023 5:16:07 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: MtnClimber
Gender Equity and Equality

What's the gender equity on the Ukrainian front lines, other than very young and very old expendable white men having their icky bits blown off?

17 posted on 05/04/2023 5:16:45 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: MtnClimber

Those things tell us who is running many key governments and corporations in the USA - perverts.

Our country has been perverted.

“They hate us for our freedoms.” GWB, Jr.

They actually hate us for our licentious.


18 posted on 05/04/2023 5:17:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

This is not new to Biden, although he has magnified and officially endorsed it. When Trump was President, there were embassies that refused to put his photo in a public place and which carried these flags. In the age of electronics, the diplomatic service is outmoded, grossly overstaffed and it needs to be pared dramatically, in locations, the number of personnel, and its budget.


19 posted on 05/04/2023 5:20:48 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Taxman

Ping


20 posted on 05/04/2023 5:28:24 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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