The Biden administration’s foreign policy does not show any willingness to cooperate, foreign and security policy expert Shea Bradley-Farrell told Radio Kossuth in an interview. The president of the Washington-based Counterpoint Institute, who is also a visiting scholar at the Center for Fundamental Rights in Hungary, discussed, among other things, the impact of the US ideological offensive on its relations with other states.
Commenting on the display of Pride flags on US embassy buildings, Shea Bradley-Farrell said it was an indication of US government policy, but the flags do not represent the majority of American people or those around the world. Recalling the results of a Pew study, she said that the majority of countries in the world do not accept homosexuality as part of morality.
She added,
the US has put pressure on foreign states since the Obama era to gain cultural acceptance of the LGBTQ community.
According to the expert, the US should be in the business of protecting human rights in general, including the rights of members of the LGBTQ community. However, to instill social ideology and impose cultural acceptance on other countries is not a part of this. She also pointed out that the consequence of this behavior is that the United States is perceived in a negative light by the majority of countries where it is present, which has an alienating effect on potential allies and even friends.
She highlighted that
the American public gets much of its information about Hungary from the liberal-left media, and these are mainly negative reports.
According to Bradley-Farrell, there will be more and more people who want to stand up for conservative values in different forms. On the Hungarian side, she sees it as great courage for the government to stand up for what it believes is right, because it is a good example.