“Someone, somewhere in the West puts his country first — this cannot stand!” appears to be the new attitude in Washington. That is, the incoming Joe Biden administration, not content to transition from “America First” to “America is worst,” now is targeting foreign patriotism for destruction. And the two countries reportedly in its crosshairs are Poland and Hungary, which Biden and other leftists have called “totalitarian.”
As Big League Politics (BLP) reports, when Biden was asked once about the Trump administration’s foreign policy, he responded,
“You see what’s happened, in everything from Belarus to Poland to Hungary, and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world, and as well, this president embraces all the thugs in the world.”
Gladden Pappin, the co-founder of American Affairs, wrote in a piece for Newsweek that Poles and the Hungarian foreign minister criticized Biden’s remarks. The incoming president’s comments are part of a broader trend that the liberal Left and the acceptable Right are engaging in, where they label any regime with nationalist and traditional political tendencies as “fascist,” “authoritarian,” and/or “totalitarian.” Apart from being intellectually lazy, these labels do these countries an injustice as far as the political paths they’ve embraced.
Hungary and Poland are both ex-Warsaw Pact countries that have moved toward more market-based economies. However, they’ve taken a national capitalist approach to their economic development. Like most of the West, both of these countries have experienced the secular trend of declining birthrates. In response, the ruling parties of both countries — Fidesz in Hungary and PiS in Poland — have adopted pro-natal policies that promote family formation. More controversially, the two countries have stood up against the radical LGBT lobby and have become resolute champions of immigration restriction. Given the two countries’ experience being under the influence of empires and other foreign powers, nationalism has always had a strong appeal in these countries.
So internationalists have long despised Poland and Hungary. For one concrete example as to why, consider that when Poland’s Law and Justice Party (PiS) rose to power in 2015, it began diluting the power of what BLP calls “communist” judges and made room for patriotic jurists to counterbalance them in the judiciary.
Yet it’s perhaps the two nations’ unabashed opposition to immigrationist schemes that most outrages the Left. For example, when pressed in 2018, Polish PiS lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński defiantly told a British TV host in an interview, “If you are asking me about Muslim illegal immigrants, none, not even one, will come to Poland.”
“We can be called ‘populists,’ ‘nationalists,’ ‘racists,’ I don’t care — I care about my family, and about my country,” the politician later said (video below).
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has spoken perhaps even more frankly, warning of globalist forces aiming to destroy Christian civilization and saying, also in 2018, “We do not want to be mixed with others[;] we are fine the way we are now” (video below of Orbán expressing anti-immigrationist sentiments).
Of course, comments even distantly approaching the above in the United States would get an American “cancelled.” So it’s no surprise that Biden’s handlers want to cancel Poland and Hungary.
As to this agenda, BLP reports of speculation that the new administration will try sparking a “color revolution” in the two countries. This means that rather than using military intervention, the strategy is to “attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press,” as Conservapedia informs.
Do note that this, along with vote fraud, is precisely how Biden/Harris “won” the 2020 election. And, in particular, the Left allegedly intends to overthrow the Polish and Hungarian governments by using its Big Tech, censorship-proxy allies.
As to this, BLP reminds us that Facebook and Twitter now have a “civic integrity project” with which they censor political figures. This is significant because Facebook is Hungary’s and Poland’s most popular social-media platform.
Many people are oblivious to Big Tech’s influence (which is by design), but it’s staggering. For example, studies by Dr. Robert Epstein, a liberal and the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, found that if the whole of GoogTwitFace favored the same candidate last year, it could have shifted up to 15 million votes — and it perhaps did.
And now, as BLP puts it, our pseudo-elites intend to “export their thought-controlling abroad.” This places in perspective why Uganda’s president temporarily banned Facebook and Twitter from his country last week in the run-up to its national election, accusing them of electoral interference.
The truth is that whether targeting Albania, Africa, or Arizona, no group more zealously pushes its agenda than the Left. A conservative in Mobile doesn’t sit around agonizing over the fact that some liberals in Massachusetts don’t conform to his thinking. But leftists in New York City will be livid that a florist in small-town Mississippi won’t provide flowers for a so-called “same-sex wedding.” It’s, “Someone, somewhere disagrees with my dogma. He must be destroyed!”
These “principles” will bend, though. Note that while leftists laughably call Poland “totalitarian” (hey, if a boy can be a girl, why not?), they utter not a peep about truly totalitarian, and entirely brutal, China. Nor are they bothered by that nation’s aggressive nationalism or its disallowing of virtually all immigration.
This is because Beijing lavishes upon leftists one of the things they want most and flexes mightily the thing they admire most: respectively, money and power.
