Donald Trump, who publicly touts himself as a “dealmaker-in-chief,” is privately upset at his failure to strike deals to stop the two wars he has promised to end, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
At a closed-door meeting with top donors at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump admitted that the frustration he feels from his inability to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine keeps him up at night, people in the room told the WSJ.
He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump has frequently claimed is negotiating in good faith, has been driving an especially hard bargain. Putin wants “the whole thing,” Trump said, referring to Ukraine.
I already thought Obama getting a Nobel peace prize after his massive drone warfare in the Middle East and Africa made that whole organization a joke. Trump getting it would be so much of a step beyond “a joke” that I don’t even know what to call it.
If you think drones are somehow more murderous and indiscriminate than artillery shells or mortar rounds, you’re delusional. Also, Trump in his first term massively escalated the use of drones and also changed the rules of engagement to no longer require planners to attempt to minimize civilian casualties.
Oh, for sure. I’m not saying they should have given one to Obama. That and Kissinger are why it’s not completely unthinkable that Trump might actually get one somehow.
Obama and Kissinger are not even close to being the same. Kissinger deserved life in prison. Obama was just doing the same old shit every American president has done in the past century.
Never said they were anything like the same. Just that neither of them had done anything particularly worthy of a Nobel peace prize. As you say, every American president in the past century would have gotten one, were that the case.