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Why is it America’s business to Queer the Donbass
Are we fighting in Ukraine in order to “queer the Donbass”? That phrase, which I believe originated with TAC’s editor-at-large Rod Dreher, implies that the ideological package that NATO rallied to Ukraine to defend includes not only freedom and democracy but also pride parades and drag queen story hour. That would, of course, be a ridiculous reason to fight a war. Many Americans don’t want to queer their own kids’ elementary school, much less an industrial Slavic province five thousand miles away.
In August 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged that his government would introduce legislation to create civil partnerships for gay couples. The bill was approved by the Ministry of Justice in October 2023. Instituting gay marriage will require a constitutional amendment, which Zelensky has said will have to wait until after the war ends. In the meantime, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in June 2023 that two Ukrainian men seeking a marriage license had been illegally discriminated against and, as a signatory to the European human rights convention, Ukraine must pass a law that grants them equal treatment.
In theory, it ought to be possible to be part of the democratic world and not buy in to America’s particular version of non-traditional sexual morals. In practice, apparently, it is not.
The story of how gay rights came to play a role in American foreign policy is a curious one. It started under Barack Obama and continued, surprisingly, under Donald Trump. It was folded into our broader support for human rights at a time when every single referendum on gay marriage here in the United States had failed and support for gay marriage at home was far from unanimous. In light of that, it should be unsurprising that the answer to our original question is: Yes, in fact, we are fighting to queer the Donbass. The average American may not be interested in that goal, but our State Department is.
In 2004, billboards appeared in the Macedonian capital of Skopje with pictures of gay couples and the slogan “Face Reality, The Campaign to Promote the Rights of Sexual Minorities.” At the bottom right corner of each billboard was the seal of the U.S. embassy. The billboards had been purchased by a local gay rights group called the Center for Civil and Human Rights, which two years earlier had received a $20,000 grant from the U.S. government. The ambassador to Macedonia at the time, Lawrence Butler, was a Clinton appointee rumored to be personally hostile to the “family-values agenda” of Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski. The embassy nevertheless disavowed the posters, saying the CCHR had used the seal “inappropriately.”
The controversy over the Macedonian billboards put a chill on efforts to incorporate gay rights into American foreign policy. Proponents would absolutely continue working toward that goal. They just realized they would have to be cautious. When Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, his State Department appointees got to work on how to frame an international gay rights agenda. After two years, they were ready to proceed.
The founding charter of American gay rights diplomacy was a speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Geneva in December 2011. In the speech, Clinton modified a line from the famous speech she gave in Beijing as first lady about women’s rights: “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” She told gay and transgender people around the world, “You have an ally in the United States, and you have millions of friends among the American people.” She also promised to “use all the tools of American diplomacy, including the potent enticement of foreign aid, to promote gay rights around the world.”
This was a sweeping new agenda backed by a formidable threat. The caution lay in the narrow definition of gay rights that the State Department would promote. Embassy personnel abroad would not advocate for gay marriage, gay adoption, or even civil unions. They would simply condemn acts of violence against gays, laws criminalizing gay sex, and disparate treatment of gays under the law, such as unequal ages of consent. The idea was to make gay rights seem to be something everyone could get behind. No American evangelical, however conservative, would endorse the South African practice of “corrective rape” for lesbians, one of the examples Clinton cited in her speech…..
(Easy answer, Obama, he tried this for 8 years in Africa, he failed, but he will never give up…)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/our-lgbt-empire/
Look up what obama did with EO’s and mandates for 8 years. He was trying to spread his destructive perversion WW. He cut off African countries from aid, they stood their ground, and is the reasons they pass many laws against it. This is the reason Africa is passing anti gay, trans all perversions and why they stand with Russia today!
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Awkward: John Kirby Struggles When Asked for a Biden Foreign Policy Achievement
Matt MargolisDecember 25, 2023
It's got to be tough to be a member of the Biden administration and have it be your job to talk up the administration's accomplishments. Sometimes, you have to be a good liar. If you're not a good liar, well, you can really embarrass yourself.
NSC spokesman John Kirby certainly learned that the hard way last week when he was asked by CBS News' Ed O’Keefe, “What would the president say is his foreign policy achievement of the year?”
"There’s a lot that we’ve achieved in foreign policy,” Kirby began. "And Karine has already made sure that she — that you know that we’re — we’re running late, and I don’t want to — I don’t want to belabor this. So, I — this answer could go on for, like, 20 minutes."
For something that most certainly wasn’t meant as a gotcha question, Kirby sure sounded like he didn’t want to come up with an answer.
And then he launched into an awkwardly long filibuster.
"But, I mean, from the Indo-Pacific and the Quad and the AUKUS deal to get Australia nuclear-powered submarine capability; to what we’ve done with supporting Ukraine, pushing back — they’ve clawed back more than 50 percent of the territory that Russia took in the early months of the war."
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? I’m sure you are, and even Kirby most likely realized this wasn’t exactly a foreign policy achievement of Biden’s at all.
"You think they — you know, obviously, they did that through courage and bravery on the field. But they certainly did that with United States support,” Kirby added.
Ouch.
"Look at what Israel has been able to do to put pressure on Hamas in the wake of the worst terrorist attack they’ve — that they’ve ever — that they’ve ever succumbed to,” he continued. Which is pretty hilarious because Israel hasn’t exactly been getting much support from the Biden administration these days.
And the train wreck continued.
"I mean, I could go on and on," Kirby said. "There — there has been — I think if I had to bucket it into one thing, the — one of the most important things he’s done on the foreign policy front is shore up and revitalize our vast network of alliances and partnerships. No other nation in the world has that kind of a network at their disposal the way United — the United States does. And our leadership on the world stage is stronger because he took the time to in…vest in those relationships—many relationships that had been let lapse by the previous administration."
It's an awkward, fluff-filled ramble that includes achievements that had nothing to do with Biden's actual policies or completely subjective, abstract talking points.
You almost have to feel bad for the guy. When Trump was in office, our allies and enemies respected our strength, and Trump managed to achieve something that his predecessors couldn't and Biden failed to build upon: the Abraham Accords. President Trump successfully brokered bilateral agreements between Israel and several Muslim nations — including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan — that established diplomatic relations between the countries. The American media often pooh-poohed the Abraham Accords, but they were the most significant progress towards peace in the Middle East.
In fact, Saudi Arabia’s potential inclusion in the accords was discussed and potentially imminent even during Trump’s presidency. In September 2020, Trump predicted that five other nations would potentially join, including Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, progress in achieving peace deals between Israel and other Arab nations hasn’t increased significantly in the nearly three years Joe Biden has been in office.
Once upon a time, Barack Obama named Joe Biden as his running mate to fill a void in his own resumé on foreign policy experience. Today, Joe Biden's own team can't seem to name any legitimate foreign policy accomplishments to brag about.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2023/12/25/awkward-john-kirby-struggles-when-asked-for-a-biden-foreign-policy-achievement-n4924996