But she accused the Russian President of exploiting the error by the former Speaker, who had apologized and resigned after the incident, for propaganda purposes.
“We can’t change the fact that he made that mistake. We can, though, all of us decide how effective Vladimir Putin is at weaponizing that mistake,” she said. “And I would really urge all of us to understand that Russian propaganda is real.”
Yes, the thing we did BY MISTAKE supports the claims made by our adversary, BUT its up to all of us to be dismissive of these claims, because they make my Uncles very upset
What I don't get is, either it was a mistake and these people are really that incompetent or it wasn't a mistake and they somehow thought they'd get away with it. Which is it?
For Zelensky and Freeland, obviously not a mistake. I'm sure that there were some politicos in the room who were just incompetent.
made the mistake of thinking they could get away with it
As Putin put it, those applauding were either idiots or scoundrels.