Joe Biden Keeps Confusing Ukraine and Iraq

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By Jordan Fabian, Nancy Cook, and Jenny Leonard

June 28, 2023 at 4:13 PM UTC

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President Joe Biden slipped up twice in the last 24 hours by confusing the US war in Iraq with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday on the South Lawn of the White House, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been weakened by a shocking mutiny by a mercenary group that’s played a critical role in his war with Ukraine.