President Joe Biden set social media ablaze over the weekend by adorning the White House with the latest iteration of the Pride flag, which oddly bears the shape of the Cuban flag. Many were the responses to this display, including accusations that it’s a violation of the United States Flag Code.

Regardless, the White House has made its point. It’s Pride Month and LGBT values, with an emphasis on transgender issues, occupy a preeminent role for the Biden administration. Team Biden promotes the same values abroad as at home.

Addressing the United Nations last year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that "standing up for LGBTQI+ people is a top priority for our administration." He announced the appointment of a new State Department special envoy to "advance the human rights of LGBQI+ persons" globally. Blinken did not exaggerate. All over the world, U.S. embassies fly Pride flags and promote LGBT as core American values.

Sometimes this gets weird.

On the first of this month, to kick off Pride celebrations, our ambassador in Kosovo tweeted , "Proudly raised the [Pride] flag at the embassy and at my residence today in support of equal rights for all LGBTQI+ persons in Kosovo & around the world. LGBTQI+ rights are human rights." Our ambassador’s high interest can be gauged by the fact that so far this month, four of his nine tweets have addressed LGBT issues.

Only two weeks ago, Kosovo was aflame with its worst riots in years. These featured attacks on NATO peacekeepers which injured dozens. The riots raised fears that a wider war between that little country’s Albanian majority and Serbian minority was about to break out. That Moscow and Beijing publicly took the side of the Serbs, implicitly against NATO, caused diplomatic panic across Europe. What our ambassador was tweeting about, however, was the Pride flag.

Kosovo’s elite got the message, so it was all hands on deck last weekend for the country’s seventh annual Pride parade in the capital Prishtina, led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti among other politicians, including Prishtina’s mayor. "I love you as you are" was this year’s motto and Kurti explained his participation: "I believe that we should all be equal, and everyone should have their dignity and integrity guaranteed and protected."

Nobody acquainted with Kosovo actually believes Kurti thinks that. It remains the same traditional, patriarchal society it’s always been, with a population over 90% Muslim. In 2015, a U.S. government-linked NGO determined , based on polling, that Kosovo is the most homophobic country in the Balkans (a high bar to clear). The country’s LGBT scene lives largely underground and open gay culture, with bars and clubs, as is normal in the West, is missing.

Nevertheless, Kosovo’s elite knows who calls the shots. The country was created by the United States in our 1999 war with Serbia. In turn, just about whatever Washington wants is what happens there. Prishtina is the only place on Earth with a 10-foot-tall statue of Bill Clinton (located on Bill Clinton Boulevard, naturally). The Biden administration wants Pride Month to be a big deal in Kosovo, therefore it is, with help from left-wing NGOs, especially Soros-linked, which brag about their LGBT advocacy in the down-market Balkans, where their money goes far.

Over in Bosnia, another war-ravaged country recreated under U.S. auspices in the 1990s, local Serbs are an irritant with their pseudo-state called the Republika Srpska, whose leader loves to troll the West by thumbing his nose at NATO while giving medals to Vladimir Putin, hailing brotherly ties with Russia, and making noise about secession. Yet what really got under the State Department’s skin wasn’t all that. Instead, it was the Bosnian Serbs’ refusal to host a Pride parade this March, which led Blinken to denounce them via tweet for their "attacks on basic rights and freedoms."

Republicans have nothing to feel smug about.

President Donald Trump made LGBT rights a plank of his foreign policy too, albeit not as prominently as the Biden administration does. Last year, just after Russia invaded Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, justified his country’s aggression against its neighbor by explaining that hosting "gay parades" is a "loyalty test" for the United States to see who is subservient to its "world-governing power."

It’s never good when Moscow’s propaganda contains more than a grain of truth.

John R. Schindler served with the National Security Agency as a senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer.