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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime's person of the year shouldn't be Donald Trump: its clearly Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump should not have been named Time magazines Person of the Year. Thats not to make the schoolboy error of presuming the award to be a badge of moral approval: I know it merely recognises the individual who has dominated the previous 12 months, for good or ill. (Its why Time has no reason to regret handing the 1938 accolade to Adolf Hitler.)
Even so, and even though Trump was clearly the biggest news story of 2016, he still should not have won. For there is another figure who looms larger over this annus horribilis, albeit from the shadows. He ends this year with a wolfish grin, content that almost all his dreams have come true. That man is Vladimir Putin.
He surveys the global landscape and sees almost every sign pointing his way. From Aleppo to the White House, from post-truth to Brexit, this is the year the world was reshaped in his image. He may not have been the guiding hand behind every shift, though he certainly gave several of them a nudge, but together they made him 2016s biggest winner.
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Even so, and even though Trump was clearly the biggest news story of 2016, he still should not have won. For there is another figure who looms larger over this annus horribilis, albeit from the shadows. He ends this year with a wolfish grin, content that almost all his dreams have come true. That man is Vladimir Putin.
He surveys the global landscape and sees almost every sign pointing his way. From Aleppo to the White House, from post-truth to Brexit, this is the year the world was reshaped in his image. He may not have been the guiding hand behind every shift, though he certainly gave several of them a nudge, but together they made him 2016s biggest winner.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/09/person-of-the-year-trump-putin-dreams-brexit-us-election-aleppo-post-truth
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Time's person of the year shouldn't be Donald Trump: its clearly Vladimir Putin (Original Post)
DanTex
Dec 2016
OP
YES... YES... Brexit, Crimea, US elections... he's done more to influence shit than DPutin
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#1
Yes, he is in the same league as Gorbachev, Bush II, and Obama -- maybe next year.
FarCenter
Dec 2016
#6
OR Trump as Putin's puppet - Perhaps Putin as the puppeteer pulling Trumps strings...... nt
AnotherMother4Peace
Dec 2016
#4
Or update the same cover with Putin removing the Trump face mask from the original...
Freethinker65
Dec 2016
#7
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)1. YES... YES... Brexit, Crimea, US elections... he's done more to influence shit than DPutin
... and came before DPutin
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)2. Putin was Time Person of the Year in 2007
http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/0,28757,1690753,00.html
It has been done already.
It has been done already.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)3. Another do over. Putin deserves it.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)6. Yes, he is in the same league as Gorbachev, Bush II, and Obama -- maybe next year.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,251 posts)4. OR Trump as Putin's puppet - Perhaps Putin as the puppeteer pulling Trumps strings...... nt
toddwv
(2,830 posts)5. Or keep it Trump
but put a pic of Trump in the foreground with Putin just in the background looking over his shoulder.
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)7. Or update the same cover with Putin removing the Trump face mask from the original...
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,251 posts)8. Perfect! That would be the perfect cover. nt
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)9. By Times criteria?
Sure enough
Generator
(7,770 posts)10. Ka ching!
So true.