Another faux pas for US President Joe Biden. Speaking to reporters ahead of his flight to Chicago and commenting on the latest news from Russia, the White House tenant swapped Ukraine for Iraq. The White House itself confirmed in a statement the exchange of jokes that took place on CNN. And no, no errors were left out in the full transcript of Biden’s speech.
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Journalists asked Joe Biden for a statement on the attempted march on Moscow by Wagner militias, coordinated by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Precisely on this occasion, the US President was the author of a new embarrassment. Biden has commented on the uprisings that have rocked Russia and recent developments in the conflict that is bringing Europe to its knees, mistaking Ukraine for Iraq.
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When asked to what extent Vladimir Putin was weakened by recent events, the US President replied: “Hard to say, but he is clearly losing the war in Iraq. He loses the war at home. And he’s kind of become a “pariah around the world”. “It’s not just NATO, it’s not just the European Union. It’s Japan, I’m … you know, forty nations,” Biden added.
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In the released transcript, the White House staffers also retained the passage where Biden swaps Iraq for Ukraine for accuracy, adding a “sic” in parentheses. The formula, borrowed from Latin, suggests that “it really is so,” that the US President’s faux pas is undeniable.