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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? 08:22 - Oct 9 with 4803 viewsbluelagos

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:37 - Oct 9 with 2249 viewsWeWereZombies

Donald (Ducks) getting the Nobel prize would certainly be a first for a cartoon character, but I never knew he had a multiple personality disorder.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:39 - Oct 9 with 2238 viewsDJR

It's probably too early to say but were there to be a lasting peace, why not?

It is certainly significant that the hostage families are praising Trump not Netanyahu, who has scuppered every proposal up till now.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:47 - Oct 9 with 2205 viewsbaxterbasics

He wouldn't be the least deserving of all recipients in history.

This is no way a judgement overall on Trump v Obama, but I'm still baffled by how the latter received the award.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:50 - Oct 9 with 2196 viewsDJR

Interesting article suggesting it was France and Saudi Arabia action which led to the breakthrough.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/07/diplomacy-lowest-point-how-the-isr
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:51 - Oct 9 with 2186 viewsFromReuserWithLove

Not making the nominees so I believe. Thankfully as his whole remit is about stirring up hate and division.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:08 - Oct 9 with 2147 viewsJohnTy

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:51 - Oct 9 by FromReuserWithLove

Not making the nominees so I believe. Thankfully as his whole remit is about stirring up hate and division.


The criteria for the prize:

"shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".



Clearly threats to take over Greenland and designs on Canada are just what the original framers of the criteria envisioned.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:09 - Oct 9 with 2146 viewseirannach_gorm

Maybe not.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo.amp
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:10 - Oct 9 with 2140 viewsBloomBlue

Well Obama received it and he approved dropping more bombs than most world leaders.

The Noble peace prize lost all relevance after Obama. It simply proved its all about politics
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:20 - Oct 9 with 2105 viewsbaxterbasics

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:10 - Oct 9 by BloomBlue

Well Obama received it and he approved dropping more bombs than most world leaders.

The Noble peace prize lost all relevance after Obama. It simply proved its all about politics


That was a weird one wasn't it? The major criticism from the left in America of Obama is that he was every bit the warmonger as, well, most of his predecessors.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:20 - Oct 9 with 2104 viewsnoggin

Nah, Netanyahu should get it.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:23 - Oct 9 with 2082 viewsPinewoodblue

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:39 - Oct 9 by DJR

It's probably too early to say but were there to be a lasting peace, why not?

It is certainly significant that the hostage families are praising Trump not Netanyahu, who has scuppered every proposal up till now.


As long as it includes a West Bank solution and not just Gaza.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:38 - Oct 9 with 2027 viewsBlueschev

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:47 - Oct 9 by baxterbasics

He wouldn't be the least deserving of all recipients in history.

This is no way a judgement overall on Trump v Obama, but I'm still baffled by how the latter received the award.


I believe Obama won it for not being George Bush, which makes me a little irked I didn't win it, not being George Bush either. It was farcical. As it would be if Trump won it.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:40 - Oct 9 with 2019 viewsblueasfook

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:47 - Oct 9 by baxterbasics

He wouldn't be the least deserving of all recipients in history.

This is no way a judgement overall on Trump v Obama, but I'm still baffled by how the latter received the award.


It's certainly no more ironic than Tony Blair being "Middle East Peace Envoy"

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:43 - Oct 9 with 1998 viewsredrickstuhaart

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:39 - Oct 9 by DJR

It's probably too early to say but were there to be a lasting peace, why not?

It is certainly significant that the hostage families are praising Trump not Netanyahu, who has scuppered every proposal up till now.


Probably because he actively encouraged Israel for two years before showing any genuine interest in peace?
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:46 - Oct 9 with 1989 viewsBlueschev

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:43 - Oct 9 by redrickstuhaart

Probably because he actively encouraged Israel for two years before showing any genuine interest in peace?


Indeed. Also moving the US embassy to Jerusalem doesn't strike me as the actions of a president wanting to lower the tensions in the region.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:58 - Oct 9 with 1957 viewsGuthrum

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:10 - Oct 9 by BloomBlue

Well Obama received it and he approved dropping more bombs than most world leaders.

The Noble peace prize lost all relevance after Obama. It simply proved its all about politics


Obama primarily got it for being the first black President of the USA*. Trump perhaps should get it for being the first orange one.





* In the historical context of slavery, segregation and the Civil Rights struggle, to be fair.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:05 - Oct 9 with 1931 viewsGuthrum

Teddy Roosevelt got it for not much more (being the US President who hosted the peace conference which ended the Russo-Japanese War).

Just six years ago, Abiy Ahmed got it for ending a border war, shortly before conducting a bloody internal conflict and domestic political repression.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:08 - Oct 9 with 1919 viewsGuthrum

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:46 - Oct 9 by Blueschev

Indeed. Also moving the US embassy to Jerusalem doesn't strike me as the actions of a president wanting to lower the tensions in the region.


That was a piece of domestic politics played out in someone else's country. The effect upon regional tensions was irrelevant, so far as he was concerned.

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:11 - Oct 9 with 1908 viewsBlueschev

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:08 - Oct 9 by Guthrum

That was a piece of domestic politics played out in someone else's country. The effect upon regional tensions was irrelevant, so far as he was concerned.


Oh I agree. Red meat to the evangelical lunatics desperate for the apocalypse.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:17 - Oct 9 with 1866 viewsDJR

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:43 - Oct 9 by redrickstuhaart

Probably because he actively encouraged Israel for two years before showing any genuine interest in peace?


According to Kamala Harris, Biden did much the same, as did Western governments until relatively recently.

EDIT: an extract from the article I linked above.

Yet, however entrenched the mutual hatreds, a consensus is building across the west that this conflict was desperately mishandled, including by European leaders who initially ceded responsibility to a US Democratic administration that romanticised modern Israel, misread how its government might react to the horror of 7 October – and how that would polarise the west.

Indeed, the mea culpas and self-justifications have been streaming out of Joe Biden’s former team. In her book on her doomed bid to become president, Kamala Harris writes: “I had pleaded with Joe, when he spoke publicly on this issue, to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians. But he couldn’t do it: while he could passionately state ‘I am a Zionist’, his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced.”

She adds that Benjamin Netanyahu never repaid the loyalty that Biden had shown because he wanted Donald Trump in the seat opposite him.

At its most generous, the Democrats misread the power dynamics. “We did not act like a superpower,” Andrew Miller, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, said recently. “Instead of beginning from the proposition that these were problems we could solve, we persuaded ourselves that there was little we could do to move our regional ally Israel.”

Trump did not have that inferiority complex. He used his unpredictability as his greatest diplomatic weapon but, like Biden, his special envoy Steve Witkoff became bogged down in trying to find a formula that guaranteed the release of all the hostages without Israel resuming the fighting, as it did in March this year.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:23 - Oct 9 with 1844 viewsDJR

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:23 - Oct 9 by Pinewoodblue

As long as it includes a West Bank solution and not just Gaza.


There was a lot resting on my words "were there to be a lasting peace" but, leaving that aside, my view is that the West Bank will never form part of a Palestinian state not least because of Western (and especially US) acquiescence to settlements for decades.
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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:26 - Oct 9 with 1827 viewsArchiRob

wonder how they consider his masked Ice thugs zip tying naked kids and old people in wheelchairs, shooting female citizens point blank with rubber bullets and pepper spray, abducting people from the streets and threatening to unleash his army on anyone who didn't vote for him. Also, any thought towards his constant threats to Annex Canada and Greenland. Maybe Putin should have applied if they are considering Trump?

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:29 - Oct 9 with 1818 viewscatch74

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 11:26 - Oct 9 with 1714 viewsPinewoodblue

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:23 - Oct 9 by DJR

There was a lot resting on my words "were there to be a lasting peace" but, leaving that aside, my view is that the West Bank will never form part of a Palestinian state not least because of Western (and especially US) acquiescence to settlements for decades.
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It is being Trumpeted as a peace settlement for the region, not just Gaza, which really isn’t true.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165988

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So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 12:32 - Oct 9 with 1564 viewsBasingstokeBlue

So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:29 - Oct 9 by catch74

We’ve had ages like Bronze Age , classical antiquity, renaissance are we now living in world Banter era?


Nah, this is the Orange Age.

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