The distortion and coarsening of American foreign policy has long been a perfect reflection of the delusion of American society, the state of its philosophy and culture characterized by division, abnormality, and a complete lack of common sense.
Of course, America is sending messages a lot these days, or rather, it is sending us messages through its deputy, who is called Pressman, and around this time he is the United States ambassador to Hungary.
Most recently, he just told us that Viktor Orbán is pro-Putin.
Let's not talk about what he has to do with this, since many people have already tried to explain that this strange figure is unable to understand how far his powers can extend, what he can criticize and what he can't, since the law dictates this to ambassadors just like anyone else another within the framework of foreign policy.
Mr. Ambassador is not interested in this. It therefore violates the law, but a "soldier" of a great power is allowed to do so.
Just as he is free to declare that Ukrainian men, women and children are being murdered by war criminals. Moreover, we must also forgive him that when he accuses others, he usually forgets how many countries his country has carried out murderous actions in the past decades. Didn't men, women and children live on the land of Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria and Nigeria? Did Mr. Pressman count how many people actually died at these locations? I wonder what he would say to them if an ambassador was there right now?
Whatever. The distortion and coarsening of American foreign policy has long been a perfect reflection of the delusion of American society, the state of its philosophy and culture characterized by division, abnormality, and a complete lack of common sense. Mr. Pressman just puts some shovels on these phenomena.
That's why it's funny that you try to educate others. He particularly likes to criticize us, sometimes I even suspect that the job description issued to ambassadors has been changed, and it has been added that the given country has to be scolded for something every day, or maybe even a few of its leaders have to be salted on the backs of their leaders with a cane stick? In his infinite conceit, Mr. Pressman seems to have forgotten that life in his country is full of cruelty, murder, bribery, violence, and aberration, phenomena that we will never consider following. I also hasten to note that we cannot regard the United States as a role model when it comes to migrant affairs, and not even in many other important matters.
There is, that is to say, something to change in the way of life of the United States, which plays the role of the world's master, since its own scientists also criticize it.
Not so long ago, the renowned theorist Henry Giroux was found to say that in America "anti-public intellectuals dominate the screen, encouraging us to buy more, consume more, and make a virtue out of the pursuit of personal gain, while promoting consumerism away from politics, its culture alienating it from social problems". Giroux's warning certainly did not fall on fertile ground. America did not see his insights as attention-grabbing.
And if we go further in discussing the problems of the world and want to tell the truth, we must also add that the "international" refugee crisis and the migrant situation can also be "thanked" to the United States' wars in the Middle East.
So it doesn't matter who we listen to and whose advice we take. In this regard, I do not think that we should choose Mr. Pressman as a councilor.
And if we go a little further back in time - not much, just that we remember people who saw the future clearly, but those who should have listened to them and recognized their ability to see the future, but did not do so, but ignored left their insights - then we can safely turn to the late Oriana Fallaci, who more than a decade ago accurately saw the Europe caught up in the refugee crisis, and also that there are and will be people who have freedom of speech, and there are people who don't.
Some are respectful, considerate of their historical and cultural sensitivities, and some are not.
He saw that an era was coming in which European basic values and constitutionality would be questioned, and they would do all this without any real discussion about multiculturalism and integration. In 2004, he said that Europe is now one of Islam's dominions, even a colony. And he added: despite the cries of pain, the blind remain blind and the deaf remain deaf. He clearly saw that among the immigrants and conquerors there are indeed terrorists who will blow us up with skyscrapers or buses.
Well, it's done, there's no arguing about it.
Fallaci also saw that an era greets us in which European basic values are questioned, but we become cowards by choosing hypocrisy instead of courage. This is where we are now.
And Mr. Pressman gives advice on who Viktor Orbán, the pro-Putin Hungarian prime minister, should and shouldn't talk to. Next time, he will probably advise how to caress the migrants besieging our borders.
I suspect that he did not study the history of our country in depth before he came here to Hungary. Unfortunately, he could not read other important writings either, for example by the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, who in the 1930s, in his book The Revolt of the Masses, predicted, among other things, that Europe would be unfaithful to its former self, and added that Europe should not give up the existence of the nations of the continent. .
So much for the sober visionaries.
Meanwhile, Mr. Pressman is poking fun at the meeting between Putin and Orbán.
He deals with gender issues, and almost only comments on things regarding Hungarian politics, but also regarding our way of life, which he has nothing to do with on earth, nor can he. Oh, and he even preaches about democracy in a hypocritical way. And he doesn't notice it, because he doesn't want to notice that it is the global elite of which he is a loyal servant, well, it is this elite that is consistently trying to abolish democracy once and for all.
For now, we can only tell him that we experienced this a long time ago.
And we have known for quite some time that democracy in the countries of the world's masters is equal to two wolves and a lamb deciding what will be for dinner.
