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Russian President Vladimir Putin is the one who should get the Nobel Peace Prize, a former advisor to Ronald Reagan has said in a Fox news editorial.

“In one of the most deft diplomatic maneuvers of all time, Russia’s President Putin has saved the world from near-certain disaster,” Kathleen Troia McFarland wrote.

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McFarland is just one of many commentators who have praised Putin’s handling of the situation, saying that the Russian leader has shown a deft hand where Obama has not.

“It turns out that leading from behind left a big opening up front. Putin stepped right in. And Obama still hasn’t figured it out,” McFarland wrote.

McFarland was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs for Reagan from 1982 to 1985 and is now a regular contributor to Fox news.

Putin was recently in the news for a Wednesday op-ed he penned for the New York Timeswhere he warned against U.S. military intervention in Syria. In the piece accounted for 11% of the New York Times‘ web traffic on Wednesday. The paper revealed that it did not pay a freelance fee to Putin for the article.