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President Biden called the Swiss leader on Thursday. Announced. He discusses abandoning a second-century neutral country to join NATO — before he corrects himself as soon as he actually means Sweden.
"Some American media remember a phone call from a Finnish leader who asked if he would come to see me. He came the next day. "Would you support my participation? Countries participating in NATO?" We got the phone. He suggested that we call him the leader of Switzerland, "Biden said.
The President quickly corrected the mistake and added, "Switzerland, my goodness, here I am really worried about the enlargement of NATO in Sweden."
Biden spoke at a press conference in Madrid following the NATO summit. At this summit,Finland and Swedenwere formally invited to a military alliance in response to Russians over the age of four months. Ukrainian invasion.
Sweden has been neutral to various European military involvements since the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s, during which time it lost Finnish rule to Russia.
Finland has been neutral since World War II, when it lost considerable territory to the Soviet Union.
Biden, who turns 80 this year, had previously confused the name of his country. When he intended to say "South Korea" last month when he listed supporters of US sanctions against Russia, he mistakenly said"North Korea".
Last year he confused Libya with Syria and talked about potential areas of cooperation with Russia.
With the addition of Finland and Sweden, the number of NATO members has increased to 32 after Turkey opposed the Nordic countries' participation in the block.
