Biden Mocked Over Gaffe About Putin’s War in Iraq

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President Joe Biden was mocked online Wednesday after an errant comment about Russian leader Vladimir Putin's "war in Iraq"—a country whose capital sits approximately 1,200 miles away from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Numerous figures on the right—including the Republican National Committee's press arm—mocked the mistake on social media. One prominent Trump supporter said in a Twitter post viewed more than 74,000 times that Biden had "lost his mind." Speaking with reporters about a recently aborted uprising against the Russian military establishment and its handling of the war, Biden said he believed the increasingly visible fissures in Russia's high ranks...