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2022-07-02 Home Front: Politix

Biden mixes up Switzerland, Sweden, jokes he's 'anxious' about NATO growth

[NYPOST] Well, they do start with the same letter …
Bleh. Ever heard a Swede try to yodel?
President Biden announced Thursday that he had called the leader of Switzerland to discuss abandoning two centuries of neutrality to join NATO — before quickly correcting himself to say he actually meant Sweden.

“Some of the American press will remember when I got a phone call from the leader of Finland saying could he come and see me, then he came the next day and said, ‘Will you support my joining — my country joining NATO?’ We got the telephone. He suggested we call the leader of Switzerland,” Biden said.

The president immediately fixed his mistake, adding, “Switzerland, my goodness, I’m getting really anxious here about expanding NATO — of Sweden.”

Biden was speaking at a press conference in Madrid following a NATO summit at which Finland and Sweden were officially invited to join the military alliance in response to the more than four-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Sweden had been neutral in Europe’s various military engagements since the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s, during which it had lost control of Finland to Russia.

Posted by Fred 2022-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 Iranian, Ukrainian, whatever.

If this..
-sweeping hand gesture-
was The Plan, I couldn't ask for a better mast head than Joe Robinette Biden.

Like a McD's commercial. What's Ukraine to us? We're Robinette.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-02 13:02|| 2022-07-02 13:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Bath House Barry mistakenly calling the "Malvinas," i.e. the Falklands, the Maldives.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-02 13:09|| 2022-07-02 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Any of his speeches when they were doing Vietnam Veteran award ceremonies.

"Anyone speak Austrian?"

"I've never had Guinness before. It tastes so much better (here in Ireland) than it does in The States."

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-02 13:55|| 2022-07-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Australia, Austria....what's the diff?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-07-02 16:09|| 2022-07-02 16:09|| Front Page Top

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