Degraded Nobel Peace Prize standards could mean Trump deserves one
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If Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho could win the Nobel, why not Trump and Netanyahu?
Incidentally, Trump has sanctioned the court's chief prosecutor for daring to try to arrest his mate, as well as the chief UN monitor on Palestinian rights for issuing a report on the
complicity of multinational corporations in Israel's 'genocide' in the Palestinian Terroritories.
But never mind; Pakistan, Ukraine, and now Israel and a group of African leaders have taken turns to nominate Trump for the big prize, which the US president has openly admitted he covets. Imagine that: the US has been arming Ukraine and Israel to the teeth, and they in turn nominate its president for the peace prize. That's the kind of world we live in now.
Ok, Ukraine has withdrawn the peace nomination after Washington temporarily halted weapon supplies. You can't say Kyiv wasn't being consistent! But now that the weapon pipelines have been restored, perhaps Kyiv should resume the nomination.
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Remember how Barack Obama won the 2009 peace prize just for being elected president? That was what everyone had suspected at the time, and it was subsequently confirmed in the autobiography of a former Nobel Institute director, in his own words, to 'strengthen the president'.
Compared with the just-elected Obama, Trump actually did some things, though critics can't agree on what they are or their implications.
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