Hours after President Trump proclaimed on Truth Social that he should have won the Nobel Peace Prize several times, he guaranteed he will never get it.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee never has and never will give the prize to someone who bombs another country. Or rounds up thousands of people he stereotypes with his lies and ships them off to prisons in strange places to face indefinite futures. Or refuses to support a small country that has fought off the aggression by a supposedly overpowering enemy.
Trump claims he deserves it because of his administration’s work in getting a cease fire between Pakistan and India.
He also claims to have brought about a cease fire between Iran and Israel.
Cease fires are not peace treaties. And they have a bad habit of not lasting. In fact, Israel and Iran have already have accused each other of firing missiles after the cease fire.
Who invited him and his B-2s to the Iran-Israel party anyway? It’s one thing to work out a cease fire with diplomacy. It’s something else to unilaterally send in the bombers.
Trump’s claim that the attacks obliterated Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons has been disputed by the New York Times, citing a preliminary U.S. damage assessment report saying the bombs only collapsed a few tunnels but not the main underground production rooms. The newspaper says the truth is that production could resume in a matter of months or just weeks. Perhaps Trump was exaggerating which is not uncommon. Regardless, his attacks did not end the nuclear threat from Iran. Instead the attacks seem to have guaranteed that Iran WILL HAVE nuclear weapons if it wants them.
Former Russian President Dimitry Medvedev wasted no time making that point. He posted on social media, “What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran? The enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.”
While Trump might want the bombings to lead to regime change in Iran, Medvedev says the regime might have survived “even stronger.”
One of the countries with nukes that says it will supply Iran with nuclear warheads, if it wants them, is Pakistan, which called the attacks “deeply disturbing and an “unprecedented escalation of tension and violence, owing to ongoing aggression against Iran.”
China said it “stands ready to work with the international community to pool efforts together and uphold justice, and work for restoring peace and stability in the Middle East.”
That’s the kind of language the United States used to use. Iran has asked for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to condemn the United States. That’s the kind of thing the United States used to seek in times such as this.
People win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing good without thinking they deserve honor.
Then there’s Trump, who says he should have received the prize “four or five times.” However, he complains, “No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!”
No. That’s not all that matters to him. He wants a prize he cannot buy, cannot bully anyone into giving him, and cannot primary.
The prize for Russia/Ukraine?
The prize for giving his good friend Putin an excuse to ship ready-made atomic weapons to Iran?
Adolph Hitler didn’t win the prize for pacifying Poland and Czechoslovakia and rounding up stereotyped undesirables and shipping them off to uncertain and certainly undesirable futures. Mussolini didn’t win the prize for bombing and gassing Ethiopia into submission. Stalin didn’t win the prize for establishing gulags where he sent undesirables by the tens of thousands and creating persecutions and killings behind the Iron Curtain.
At least they didn’t complain about not winning the prize.