Nancy Pelosi Confuses Ukraine and Hungary in Foreign Policy Press Conference

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday confused the nation of Ukraine with Hungary while lecturing Russian President Vladimir Putin for escalating the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.

“If you look at the map and you see Hungary and you see how it is encircled,” Pelosi said while speaking about the geography of eastern Europe and Russian maneuvering in the region, the Republican National Committee’s research team tweeted:

Nancy Pelosi confuses Hungary and Ukraine: “If you look at the map and you see Hungary and you see how it is encircled…” pic.twitter.com/9JlwPvoBIg

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 23, 2022

Pelosi, who spoke at the Capitol building after returning from a trip in Munich, then “compared the aggression to Russia’s intervention in the United States’ own democratic process during the 2016 election,” the Associated Press claimed. 

“There will be a price to pay for Vladimir Putin,” she said, noting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was an “evil move” and comparable to the “Sudetenland,” a reference to a region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler invaded before WWII. – READ MORE