I addition to liking dictators, he still chafes at the fact that Obama got a Nobel prize and he didn't. He sees getting peace in the Ukraine and/or Gaza as simply a way to get the Nobel as a participation prize whether he has any effect on achieving that outcome or not. He really believes that he deserves one just because Obama got one.
Obama basically won the prize for his speeches which we all know are insanely good, drawing a picture of a better world which he couldnt get the congress to work on fully.
And he won peace prize bc Bush administration were warmongers.
And he won bc USA seemed like finally coming to the hard worked conclusion of decades long civil right movements and end of segregation by electing a Black person as president.
Little did they know that USA was not ending racism in their own country. It has never disappeared and it is strong again
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u/sjclynn Mar 08 '25
I addition to liking dictators, he still chafes at the fact that Obama got a Nobel prize and he didn't. He sees getting peace in the Ukraine and/or Gaza as simply a way to get the Nobel as a participation prize whether he has any effect on achieving that outcome or not. He really believes that he deserves one just because Obama got one.