| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? 08:22 - Oct 9 with 5030 views | bluelagos |
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:37 - Oct 9 with 2317 views | WeWereZombies |
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 2306 views | 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. |  | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:47 - Oct 9 with 2273 views | 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. |  |
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 08:51 - Oct 9 with 2254 views | FromReuserWithLove |
Not making the nominees so I believe. Thankfully as his whole remit is about stirring up hate and division. |  | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:08 - Oct 9 with 2215 views | JohnTy |
| 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. |  | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:10 - Oct 9 with 2208 views | 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 |  | | |
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:20 - Oct 9 with 2173 views | baxterbasics |
| 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 2172 views | noggin |
Nah, Netanyahu should get it. |  |
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:23 - Oct 9 with 2150 views | Pinewoodblue |
| 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 2095 views | Blueschev |
| 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. |  | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:40 - Oct 9 with 2087 views | blueasfook |
| 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 2066 views | redrickstuhaart |
| 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? |  | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:46 - Oct 9 with 2057 views | Blueschev |
| 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. | | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 09:58 - Oct 9 with 2025 views | Guthrum |
| 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 1999 views | Guthrum |
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 1987 views | Guthrum |
| 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 1976 views | Blueschev |
| 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. | | | |
| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:17 - Oct 9 with 1934 views | DJR |
| 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. [Post edited 9 Oct 10:39]
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:23 - Oct 9 with 1912 views | DJR |
| 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. [Post edited 9 Oct 10:42]
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 10:26 - Oct 9 with 1895 views | ArchiRob |
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 1886 views | catch74 |
We’ve had ages like Bronze Age , classical antiquity, renaissance are we now living in world Banter era? |  |
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| So Donald for the Noble peace prize then? on 11:26 - Oct 9 with 1782 views | Pinewoodblue |
| 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. [Post edited 9 Oct 10:42]
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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 1632 views | BasingstokeBlue |
| 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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