Why not? Why do purists and politically reunified turn up their noses, to be euphemistic, when they hear Nobel Peace Prize juxtaposed with Donald Trump? The president cares about it, dreams about it, aspires to it. As was the case in 2009 for Democrat Obama, a perfect figure instead for the woke culture and snobs of the universal living room.
Those who, like me, have a long history in recounting global terrorism in recent decades, however, recall an episode that has been removed from the official story (written by the victors) but finds little space in countercurrent stories, even those of the very democratic American news media. Obama in 2011 was in the situation room leading one of the fiercest raids ever, the one in which Navy seals descended from the sky in Abbotabad, Pakistan at night into the mansion of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, the great enemy, the mastermind of 9/11. The American soldiers, before killing him, unceremoniously murdered everyone they encountered, women, children, innocents.
Trump is definitely not a lamb in attitudes and public discourse, but in foreign policy he is very cautious. He wants to hold on to his election promises, no American blood spilled around the world to be the gendarmes of terracquean geopolitics, and the constant effort to get to peace in both Ukraine and the Middle East.
Debatable as one likes, a shred of dialogue with Putin has resumed. The Czar is in no hurry and for now is dealing the cards, even in the field, but the full spoils will not get him and eventually at the table with Zelensky (downsized, criticized, but never really given up) he will have to sit down. Even the Russian economy , all warlike now, will barely hold up.
In the inflamed chessboard of the Middle East, Trump maintains the historic alliance with Israel but seeks alliance with Saudi Arabia and does not humiliate Iran, although “hammering” it overnight. He is the one who does not grant Khamenei’s head to Netanyahu, he is the one who pushes in these hours for a truce in Gaza. A political solution is not there yet, but let the hostages come home in the meantime and the Palestinian people in the doldrums be helped. Peace is often imperfect or asymmetrical, but it is always the antithesis of wars. That is, death and destruction. Should Donald succeed no pre-judgments.
I will cheer for him in Stockholm.
The article The Donald for peace comes from TheNewyorker.
