Ukraine: Joe Biden’s new blunder for whom Vladimir Putin is “losing the war in Iraq”

It had occupied a prominent place in American foreign policy at the beginning of the century. But the war in Iraq ended almost 12 years ago, in December 2011 precisely, when Joe Biden was vice-president of the United States then led by Barack Obama. This is perhaps enough to explain this new blunder of the American president, invited to speak on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Asked about the difficulties encountered by Vladimir Putin, both on the front but also in his own country with the finally aborted rebellion of the Wagner group, Joe Biden assured that the master of the Kremlin was “losing the war in Iraq” . A field on which Moscow has, it seems, no intention of engaging in the immediate future. The American president also added that the Russian president was now a “pariah in the world, not only for NATO or the European Union”.

The “honor” of the holocaust

However, it is the first part of his answer that has largely caught the attention. These remarks, relayed and filmed by many American media, including CNN, risk rekindling the debate around the mental capacities of Joe Biden. The 46th President of the United States is regularly the target of attacks about his advanced age (80 years) which would make him unfit for such a function. Donald Trump, one of his fiercest opponents, notably gives him the nickname “Sleepy Joe” which could be translated as “Sleeping Joe”.

Anyway, Joe Biden is not his first blunder. Last September during a speech, he asked “where [était] Jackie” visibly addressing the former member of the representatives Jackie Walorski… who died a few weeks earlier in a road accident. One of his most “famous” blunders dates back to last July when, during a trip to Israel, he indicated that it was necessary to prevent the “truth and honor of the Holocaust” from falling into oblivion, when he certainly wanted to evoke “the horror”.

Candidate for re-election

Finally, we can mention this speech, still in July 2022, during which he had pronounced aloud the indications “end of quote” and “repeat the sentence” inscribed on the teleprompter which had, of course, not meant to be read. Joe Biden nevertheless announced on April 25 that he was running for re-election in 2024. If he were to win the trust of Americans again, the former vice-president will be 85 years old at the end of his term of office. his second term.