Former US President George W. Bush committed an error this Wednesday (18) by confusing the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the Iraq war, which began in 2003 under his rule.
“One man’s decision to launch a totally unwarranted and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean Ukraine,” Bush said at an event in Dallas, Texas. “To Iraq too. Anyway, I’m 75 [anos]”, he added, drawing laughter from the audience.
Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq on the grounds that the country had weapons of mass destruction, which were never found. The conflict lasted eight years until the last American combat troops left in 2011.
The American also compared the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to Winston Churchill (1874-1965), a politician who led the United Kingdom during World War II (1939-1945), when he fought Nazism and fascism.
On Wednesday, the 84th day of the war in Ukraine, Russia announced the expulsion of more than 80 French, Spanish and Italian diplomats from the country, in the latest retaliation against European countries that ordered the departure of Russian officials.
The French ambassador in Moscow, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, said he had been told his diplomats were due to leave Russia in two weeks.
