Biden Confuses Ukraine & Russia & Iraq

Commander in Chief unsure of who is attacking whom

There’s a funny scene in Patrick O’Brian’s novel H.M.S. Surprise—set during the Napoleonic Wars—when Dr. Stephen Maturin explains who is on England’s side and who is on Napoleon’s side in the war that never seems to end.

Well now, for the moment, it is plain enough. On our side we have Austria, Russia, Sweden and Naples, which is the same as your Two Sicilies; and on his he has a whole cloud of little states, and Bavaria and Holland and Spain. Not that these alliances are of much consequence one side or the other: The Russians were with us, and then against us until they strangled their Czar, and now with us; and I dare say they will change again, when the whim bites. The Austrians left the war in 97 and then again in the year one, after Hohenlinden: the same thing may happen again any day.

I was reminded of this passage when I watched the following video compilation of “President Joe Biden” talking about the current war in Europe that is now entering its third year. I suppose that, from the point of view of the US military-industrial complex, it doesn’t matter who is attacking whom, as long as someone is attacking someone.