American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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    And can I also be considered? I say many things on Lemmy! Is that something that can contribute? Alright, how much? $200? You want $200? Man I only got $5.50. Is that okay? I’ll get you back later man! C’mon! C’mon man! Peace price!

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    Well the fact the drone bomber in chief won one makes Trump’s question far more reasonable. There are clearly zero standards.

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    Dude is going to surrender Ukraine and claim to be a peacemaker, while sweetening the deal with a chunk of Alaska.

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      My prediction is that Putin will offer him Alaska in exchange for Canada, and Trump will grab it, without considering that Alaska isn’t his to give away, nor is Canada Putin’s.

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      Why are no leaders playing him like a fiddle on this?

      Ensure Russia ends the war with the same or less land than it started with and he’s a dead cert

      Reality doesn’t matter to him so just string him along

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          If the three major world powers (America, China, and Russia) ever sort out their authoritarian governments, it’d be neat to take a train across the world to Beijing.

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          Can you at least give Canada a heads up when you start making it even easier for Trump and Putin to get our country from all sides at once? Thanks.

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            100%. Russia likes to control the countries on their borders, to act as a buffer against invasion. Better to defend you country on someone else’s soil, and destroy their assets. We use the oceans for the exact same thing.

            That is, until he deliberately made enemies of those on our direct borders. Next he will want to control those countries, because he will feel it is very important to controlling the borders.

            And all these ideas are coming from Putin. After their meeting, expect HitlerPig to start spouting all sorts of nonsensical concepts that would be terrible for us, but great for Putin.

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    I just can’t imagine being so immune to shame that I call to nominate myself for the Nobel Peace prize. Especially if I had raped children and it was widely known.

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      His psychotic parents deliberately never instilled any sense of shame, guilt, consequences, empathy, etc. in him. He is a remarkably broken human, an actual psychological specimen. He should be locked up, and studied by scientists. Very few people have had an upbringing that was literally tailored to create a psychopath.

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        He’s a sociopath - just like the rest of billionaires. Having that much wealth, no matter how you got it, and keeping it, is already an act of great violence against many. But these people employ special psychologists and therapists to “get rid of” what’s left of their conscience. They’re essentially training themselves (and their children) to be psychopaths from a very young age. Even the ones who were actually born with something of a morality compass will have gotten rid of it by the time they need to step into the family company’s hierarchy.

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          I often call the Sociopathic Oligarchs, but I’m finding that more and more of them have graduated to being Psychopathic Oligarchs, including the Traitor-in-Chief.

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      Well Obama (not bad guy, but had not really done anything Nobel price worthy) and Kissinger (really bad guy who had no commitment for peace, guite opposite should it be opportune for his view of US foreign policy) got the price also. Soooo from that point of view it isn’t too crazy from Trump’s view to desire one.

      Of course takes guite shamelessness to propose oneself of course, but yeah. Wouldn’t be even close to first time someone not deserving got Nobel peace price. Which is sad, since on the other hand very deserving people over the years have gotten it. Giving it to non deserving people diminishes the recognition it gives to the deserving ones.

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    Just another reason the conspiracy theory about Obama giving himself the prize is bullshit. Too many people would have to keep a secret with no incentive to do so.

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    “Yes, this is President . . ehh John Barron, . . yeah, that’s the ticket! And I’ve got a great candidate for you, for your fabulous bigly Famous Prize in Nobel . . . “