President Joe Biden boasted on Tuesday night that he would bring an “onslaught” to Iraq, but it’s probably not what you think.

Biden said, “If someone told you that an onslaught on Iraq could rally all of Europe and unite NATO completely, and my staff weren’t convinced, they would.” I think I said that,” he said. I said it’s unlikely. The only thing Putin expected was to be able to split NATO. ”

Mr. Biden: “[Putin] The Iraq war is clearly lost.” pic.twitter.com/dKt6yWWGFx

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But as he exposed by referring to President Putin, Biden didn’t talk about: or Iraq. He was talking about Iraq, which is conveniently located right next to Ukraine.

We can be sure of this because on Wednesday, the Russian president told reporters he doubled down on his involvement in the “Iraq” war. Vladimir Putin When asked about the Wagner Group’s failed coup over the weekend, he said: “We’ve clearly lost the war in Iraq, we’ve lost the civil war, and we’re a bit of a pariah around the world.”

This is not the first time Biden has found it difficult to distinguish between two countries, thousands of kilometers apart, on different continents, inhabited by different ethnic groups and speaking different languages.Mr. Biden used to switched between the two However, he quickly corrected it.

Readers might mistakenly think that Biden is referring to the Iraq War in the 2000s. Because Biden played a role there too. He was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before the war began, and at the time said it would be a “march for peace and security” and voted for approval. Oops!

Dylan Houseman contributed to this report.