During a fundraiser in Seattle, President Barack Obama called for a “new order” based around a collectivized system in order to quell people’s concerns about geopolitical strife and the economy.
But whether people see what’s happening in Ukraine, and Russia’s aggression towards its neighbors in the manner in which it’s financing and arming separatists; to what’s happened in Syria — the devastation that Assad has wrought on his own people; to the failure in Iraq for Sunni and Shia and Kurd to compromise — although we’re trying to see if we can put together a government that actually can function; to ongoing terrorist threats; to what’s happening in Israel and Gaza — part of peoples’ concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn’t holding and we’re not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that’s based on a different set of principles, that’s based on a sense of common humanity, that’s based on economies that work for all people.
This is by no means the first time that Obama has called for a new world order. During a 2010 West Point speech, the President encouraged the development of a new “international order” to help secure America’s interests.
Obama also urged Europeans and Americans to embrace the idea of “global citizenship” during a 2012 Berlin speech.
Vice-President Joe Biden has also called for a “new world order.”
