Posted on 04/27/2018 9:10:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the Nobel Peace Prize really is about "peace," guess who wins the next one hands down. Even the lefties are admitting it.
This must give the Nobel committee the shivers, forced to admit that Donald Trump of all people brought peace to the Korean peninsula after 65 years. Yes, that Donald Trump, the one they have been hating for all these years. And the war Trump had been rising to dangerous levels when he stopped it.
The line pointing to Trump for this is obvious enough, too. When Trump made highly risky, seemingly crazy tweets declaring the North Korean dictator Little Rocket Man and, with a weird, weird, seemingly impulsive juvenile bravado, declared that his nukes are bigger than Kim's, things started to happen. Out of desperation, Kim hired Western consultants in the West to read him. Kim also watched the news about Syria and decided he didn't want it to happen to him. And he came to believe that Trump is not only serious, but even crazier than Kim is. Kim's response to run, not walk, to the negotiating table.
So here we have it: the handshake between North and South Korea at the DMZ along with the call to end the Korean War, which has remained smoldering embers with no peace treaty since 1953.
Who's stating the obvious about this?
Kid you not, it's lefties and their press minions.
Foreign policy doyen Ian Bremmer, who is probably best described as center-left and a realist, but a lefty nevertheless, came out with it. Up until now, he's had nothing positive to say about Trump. Here are his tweets:
I’ve been critical of Trump foreign policy missteps in past year: TPP, Paris, too many unnecessary missteps
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You read the prediction here first....
I’ve been critical of Trump foreign policy missteps in past year: TPP, Paris, too many unnecessary missteps with allies to count.
But today’s historic North/South Korea breakthrough does not happen without priority & pressure from US President.
Trump deserves full credit.
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) April 27, 2018
You win. They will.
They gave Obama a prize just for getting elected.
US President Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for Korean triumph
From Nikkei Asian Review of Trump-unfriendly Japan:
A Nobel Prize for Trump, Xi, Moon and Kim?
And this one, from the #NeverTrump Washington Examiner:
Obama has a prize, but no legacy he can be proud of.
The prize was rendered worthless when they gave it to Obama. So I would give a rip even if they did give it to Trump (which I doubt they will).
It was rendered worthless when they gave it to Yassir Arafat.
It isn’t about peace. It’s an insult.
There is scant chance Trump will be awarded anything from the globalists. He could end global hunger, cure cancer and stop all war...
He will receive nothing but scorn and torment.
The whole world seems to think this is a done deal and unicorns will henceforth gambol in endless rapture beneath rainbows all across the Korean peninsula.
I’m not so sure.
It was rendered useless when they bypassed a then living, Irena Sendler and gave it to Al Gore.
That too.
I’ll put my money on a three-way, Trump, Kim and Xi. That way the press can focus on the last two.
Take away Obama’s and give it to Trump!!
OMG that would be funny!
Somehow I don’t think Trump needs the money.
I hope they give it to Trump, and he returns it along with the million bucks and tells ‘em to go shove it!
Is it going to be milk or dark chocolate?
I love milk chocolate.
Yassir Arafat, Al gore, IPCC, Jimmy Carter, Obama...just another participation trophy.
Yeah, the hardest part: the inevitability of NKs visiting Seoul, and telling the wonders they find there. (I’ve been there, it’s ####ing amazing.) NK leadership will have a very hard time keeping control once that tipping point is reached.
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