In the United States, opponents of President Joe Biden, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, have taken to blaming him for Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine: “When Trump was President, they didn’t take anything. And now Biden’s President, and they’re rolling into Ukraine.” In a review of a biography of Putin's adversary Angela Merkel in The New York Review of Books, though, Fintan O'Toole more convincingly reads the invasion through her departure as German Chancellor: "The buildup to his invasion of Ukraine began in November 2021, just as her chancellorship was winding down. [...] Putin decided to send a sharp probe into the highly uncertain territory of post-Merkel Europe." (Andrew Shields, #111words, 1 April 2022)
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