• Windex007@lemmy.world
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        The subtext behind Pakistan doing it, and doing it now, is to try and bait Trump away from getting involved with Pakistan’s ally: Iran.

        If Trump does anything to Iran, Pakistan is going to make a big fuss about doubling-back on their nomination.

        Does the nomination mean anything? No. Is he going to get the award? No. It’s entirely a diplomatic maneuver for a very specific goal of keeping the US out of Iran.

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          Its just buttering him up for the next terrorism attack on India that Pakistan is planning to conduct. Iran is a Shia majority country and no ally of Pakistan which is a sunni majority country. Minority sects like Hindus, Shia, Ahmadiyas and ethnic minorities like Hazaras are treated the absolute worst in Pakistan. I would be surprised if they ever ally with Iran.

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    Pakistan is playing some 5-D chess, here. Butter up the raging narcissist by flattering his ego, in the hopes that he backs down on Iran or risks losing his Nobel prize nomination.

    Smart. He actually might fall for it.

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      Foreign countries know exactly what they’re doing this time around when it comes to manipulating Trump. I think last time they were surprised just how easy and stupid it was and now Saudia Arabia is just like “yeah throw some McDonald’s paint on a trailer and give him a happy meal, he’ll sign whatever we want”.

      The dude is a very very stupid child.

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      He already caused Israel attacking Iran in the first place:

      1. Ripping up the existing nuclear deal with Iran. Giving Israel the excuse.
      2. Emboldening Israel with cruel rhetoric against Palestinians himself. Allowing them to commit genocide freely.
      3. Finally giving them a “yellow light” for the attack.

      So he definitely does not deserve the nomination, but yeah, maybe he can be manipulated into backing off.

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        It’s literally his MO either through incompetence or hubris, he consistently plants landlines for both himself and others:

        • Crash out of the JCPOA despite Iranian compliance and the EU trying to maintain the deal without the US, setting the stage for the current crisis
        • Completely disregard the Palestinian question in the Abraham Accords, signaling to Hamas(/Iran) that the window is closing and soon the whole Gulf will be onboard with permanent Israeli domination of Palestine
        • Give the Taliban whatever they want in the Doha Accords, but in a timeline that forces it to be the next President’s problem
        • Publicly declare he’ll solve Ukraine-Russia in 100 days… signaling the limits of his patience, and that Putin only needs to delay, delay, delay
        • “I’ll make a decision in two weeks on Iran”
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    Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I’m on vacation abroad.

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    “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” -Trump, May 2023

    When a leader in any capacity promises something, you expect them to deliver.

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    I sincerely hope once this fucker keels over we never have to hear from him again.

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      Is it still a respected thing? I was under the impression it’s not Obama didn’t do anything except be elected and he was nominated. Can’t remember if he won it though but that seems like pretty weak criteria to be nominated.

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          I hear some Oscar winners go on to work in some really un-oscar films – and they didn’t take the Oscars back. Similarly I had a great day on 14 Aug 1999 and some really un-good days after.

          Is it okay to pick someone’s best achievement and demand that excellence every day? Please answer how you’re doing the same in your own life.

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          Not peaceful at all. I really think it’s a bullshit award these days. Constant drone striking, basic bitch democrat Obama is the best this country can do? Maybe but I hope not

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        Obama did win, and it was for his commitments to green energy and climate change. It’s widely considered bad to award people before they follow through to the end, especially for the nobel committee. I think they were trying to use it as further motivation to keep those commitments, but if anything it’s usually the opposite… at least when they give them to sociopath politicians. Could definitely be worse than Obama though.

        Edit: Reading more on it, it looks like it was also for nuclear non-proliferation. I guess both are pretty valid awards for Obama, even if he could have done far more, especially in his first two years.

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        Kissinger won after setting a bunch of infants on fire. Obama winning for nothing wasn’t the worst by a long shot.

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      Reminds me of the quote Political Satire became obsolete when Kissinger was awarded the Peace Prize. But over the years, there have seriously been multiple controversial candidates who got the prize.

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        Well yeah but wasn’t that why he came up with the Nobel prizes in the first place, to not be remembered as a monster?

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          My other comment still stands… Trump can receive as many as he can and I’ll still see him for what he really is… a giant piece of shit

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    Trump helped secure Pakistan-India ceasefire last month, preventing a broader conflict between the two nuclear

    No he didnt, India has already said it was talks between India and Pakistan and Trump had zero to do with it.

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    Well Hitler was nominated too. Sarcastically, by an anti-fashist, but he was nominated.

    So one more thing they have in common now.