Biden Announces Start of ‘New World Order’ During Address

President Joe Biden announced the beginning of what he called a ‘new world order’ that would be led by the U.S. in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine.

“We’re at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy, not just the world economy, the world, that occurs every three or four generations,” the president said. “[A general told me that] 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946 and since then we’ve established a liberal world order, and it hasn’t happened in a long while.”

“A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos.”

“Now is the time when things are shifting and there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it. We’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.”

Conservatives on social media were quick to criticize Biden’s use of the heavily loaded term:

Matthew Williams