The New TIME Depicts Putin As Angry Land, And The Economist Placed Putin Shirtless On A Tank

Amid Moscow's invasion in Crimea and increasingly hostile rhetoric from Putin himself, the premier weekly magazines in the West have some vivid new covers.

Here's TIME: 

TIME

The new cover of the Economist has Russian President Vladimir Putin, shirtless, riding on a tank into "the new world order."

This week's issue has a story titled "Putin's project: What sort of Messianism?" Where TIME is a bit more meta, the Economist cover sums it up with straightforward imagery:

The Economist