Time person of the year 2007

Again with the Time Person of the year 2007 , last year it was me and you my dear reader were the Person of the year 2006

This year surprisingly it was the Russian President Vladimir Putin, at least it was surprise to me because I thought that a man like Al Gore will take the famous title and will be the cover boy , Putin for me was a surprise but again the Time has another view interesting one because I believe in the same thing and I wanted to speak about it

Putin in the last two years managed to make Russia back again as international force against the west and in particular its traditional enemy the United States

The return of the Russian Polar Bear as it was always referred to Russia in the Egyptian Press in the good old day when there was balance in the world .

In the end Putin is just the child of the old U.S.S.R and K.G.B , yes names have changed along with some economic political ideologies yet the core ideology has not changed at all : The Russian Nationalism

Yes Putin can be considered a dictator , the man listened to his Egyptian buddy and wanted to run for presidency for third time despite the constitution does not allow that , he can't change the constitution because Russia now is democratic somehow and people won't accept anymore of the President for life nonsense despite all what he had done ,the man did not give up and you must respect that , first I read that he thought of making his wife Lyudmila Putina runs for Presidency  ,the first lady just like Hilary Clinton and  Argentina's Cristina Fernandez, imagine if that actually happened and both women have a summit meeting in the G8 with their husbands in the back ,the first Gentlemen  , the only difference Bill will be busy with the other first ladies while Vladimir will be giving orders to his wife and this is what all people knew Vladimir wants to be in the picture even if it is in the back ,of course Russia is not America and so the Russian First lady will not be accepted easily and everyone knows that her husband will actually be the President

And so he had to search for another solution and he found it ,his current Prime minister Viktor Zubkov will come as a President where as he will be the Prime minister !! Clever idea and surely during his time the prime minister will have more powers even if they have to change the constitution ,already it won't be the first time for him he used to be the prime minister before in President Boris Yeltsin 's era

But regardless of his attempt to be in the picture look to what he did , the man revived Russia again as a power force on the international scene that stands against the United States and EU all the way ,the man cleaned the terrible mess of Yeltsin ,seriously Ibrahim Eissa in his daily column in El-Dostor said that this was kind of the President who should run for presidency again "O' neighbour the talk is about you "

Starting from our hot zone , the middle east , Russia is the main supporter and Back up for Iran standing against the whole world , look it from the Russian Perspective and Putin's view , what between Russia and Iran is strategic alliance ,it is not about money and uranium , America now is on the borders of both Iran and Russia whether in Afghanistan or in Iraq not to mention the Ex-U.S.S.R republics , the American Oil companies and the American army are putting their eyes on the rest of the Caspian sea shores

Russia is back in the Arab world by its direct support to Syria and the first time since decades the Russian army now has a base in north Syria

Leave the middle east and go to Europe ,even more hotter

The treaty on conventional arms in Europe and the position of Russia from It , the suspension of the treaty from its side , the reasonable act in my view

In the beginning the treaty was signed during the last year of the cold War when Russia was U.S.S.R between the NATO and the Warsaw Pact , already some of the Warsaw Pact countries now moved to the NATO,Originally the treaty was calling for equal limit of weaponry to both parties with destruction to the excess weaponry. Russia was okay with the treaty but it was not okay with it when the NATO agreed on Bush'  US missile defence plans in Europe. The man suspended the agreement announcing the beginning of a new cold war

Putin and Russians believe that these missiles are dangerous and Russia has the right to defend itself and so it was not a surprise to find Putin threatening to target the U.S Missiles with Nukes !! Yes I know this is too much but do not forget this is a national security of a world power against another world power

Putin as I said was chosen as the Person of the year 2007 by the famous Time magazine yet as usual the cover of the magazine is especially already you may know that I became an expert in the time's covers if you are following this blog

The Americans had chosen one of the most worst image for Tsar  Putin to put it on the cover , I mean the man is not the handsome President  in the world  to have this very close up shot ,he looks like Gollum

Already the Russians do not like the pictures published in the magazine and think that it is ugly , well it is very ugly for their president

Publishing stupid ugly images for him is nothing in the counter-attack from America , Condy said that the American administration fears on the democratic process in Russia especially regarding the election , they see that Putin wants to take another round and it is not good , not because it is against the Russian Constitution but against their interest to have Putin as the head of the state for another couple of years. I bet in 2008 we will hear about Putin , the pedophile just like now when we hear about his secret 40 billion dollars bank account !!

They just want another drunken Yeltsin , the problem is in Russia either Putin and Russian Nationalism policy or it is the communists

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