Biden Aide: Drivers Paying High Gas Prices About Defending ‘Liberal World Order’

A senior Biden administration official on Thursday defended the commander-in-chief’s remarks that U.S. drivers should expect to pay higher prices at the pump until the Russia-Ukraine war is over, with National Economic Council Director Brian Deese saying that inflation-weary Americans must “stand firm” and defend the “liberal world order.”

Deese made the remarks in an appearance on CNN on June 30, during which he was asked to comment on President Joe Biden’s response to a journalist who asked the president how long American drivers can reasonably be expected to “pay a premium for this war.”

“As long as it takes,” Biden replied to the reporter during a press conference in Madrid, Spain, with the president adding that the aim is “so that Russia cannot in fact defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine.”

“This is a critical, critical position for the world,” Biden added, while once again blaming the elevated gas prices on the Russia–Ukraine conflict.

‘We Have to Stand Firm’

During his appearance on CNN, Deese was asked to deliver a message “to the families that say ‘we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years, this is not sustainable.’”

He replied by saying that Biden’s remarks were a “clear articulation of the stakes” and that “this is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.”

Deese added that the administration “is going to do everything in its power to blunt those price increases and bring those prices down.”

According to scholarship on the subject, the liberal world order is generally understood as the U.S.-led post-Cold War rules-based system of laws and norms that underpins the world’s democracies.

‘Doomed to Collapse’

Some prominent academics, like University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, have argued that the liberal world order is crumbling amid

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