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I've been thinking: Trump won't settle for less than Greenland unless it's the Nobel Peace Price. So... why not give it to him but with caveats? E.g. It will be
by Tarsul 10mo ago
I've been thinking: Trump won't settle for less than Greenland unless it's the Nobel Peace Price. So... why not give it to him but with caveats? E.g. It will be presented to him in an extraordinary pompous celebration (to tickle his ego) but will remain in Norway until the day of the end of Trump's presidency. He will receive it again on that day, and can keep it!, in another majestic ceremony.
- microtonal 10mo agoThat would also be the end of the nobel peace prize, no? If you can 'win' it by blackmailing.
- bathtub365 10mo agoThe Nobel Peace Prize committee can then award it to themselves the following year, for averting a hostile takeover of Greenland.
- pseudony 10mo agoBecause every other agreement we have made with him on tariffs or Ukraine, every other appeasement, has done nothing to sway him from his actual course. Contrary to popular thinking (and it is a nicer fantasy), he is not an inconsistent, emotionally manipulated short-termist with no attention-span. He is actually smarter than we thought (or wanted to think) OR someone actually is a bona-fide Trump whisperer. His main foreign policy aims and beliefs seem remarkably fixed. All of this to say, no further appeasement. No need to completely undermine the Nobel peace price also for 5 minutes of respite, he will literally be back to this within a fortnight.
- deeg 10mo agoIt'd be interesting to see what trump would do if the Nobel committee promised to give him a peace prize if he stopped all tariffs and gave up on greenland (or better yet, if he resigned).
- Manheim 10mo agoI understand the pragmatism, but wouldn’t that just fuel his desire for more?
- willmarch 10mo agoAppeasement doesn’t work.