Whom is Swift criticizing in this passage?

Which events are correlated but do not necessarily have a causal relationship?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo, sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Which of these did the soviet union do in 1961? it built a wall through berlin to keep people from moving to the west. it used force to destroy a wall the united states had built in berlin. it convinced the british and french to merge their zones in berlin with the soviet zone. it threatened to bomb berlin if the united states did not leave within 30 days.