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A representative of Volodymyr Zelensky’s party nominated Donald Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for his future commitments to a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Realistic?
Will Donald Trump succeed Nihon Hindakyo? The soon-to-be reinvested Republican had promised during his election campaign to negotiate a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine. As a sign of recognition, a Ukrainian MP nominated the future American president for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
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A letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee
“I believe that Trump has made considerable contributions to world peace and can make more in the future,” wrote Oleksander Merezhko, a leading lawmaker from Volodymyr Zelensky’s party and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. of the Ukrainian parliament, in a letter addressed to the Norwegian Committee.
Requested by the Kyiv Independant on his motivations, the MP explained that he wanted to “attract Trump’s attention so that he can help Ukraine survive”. The election of Donald Trump comes at a critical moment for Ukraine, both undermined by serial desertions and by a conquering Russian army on the front.
Hitler, Mussolini as candidates for the famous prize
The prospect of obtaining a prize as illustrious as the Nobel Peace Prize could change the opinion of the whimsical billionaire. “He really cares a lot about this distinction,” assures The Dispatch Nicole Bacharan, historian specializing in the United States.
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Although its name suggests it, the Nobel Peace Prize does not systematically reward men inclined to pacifism. Since its creation in 1901, the prize has seen unlikely candidates pass through, starting with Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin.
Donald Trump had already been one of the bookmakers’ favorites in 2018 after Republican elected officials sent a letter to the Nobel committee.
A total commitment to “peace and human rights”
Although these anecdotes make you smile, it is not impossible that the president attracts the attention of the committee because according to the will of Alfred Nobel, the prize rewards “the personality or the community having contributed the most or the best to the rapprochement peoples […] and the spread of progress for peace”. This is what contributed to distinguishing controversial figures such as Anwar el-Sadat or Yasser Arafat for particular action without taking into consideration their past or their actions, sometimes very contradictory with those that the price is supposed to convey.
In order to respond to certain criticisms, the Nobel committee affirmed in 2005 that the distinction would henceforth be awarded only to people who had committed their lives to the promotion of peace and human rights. Does Donald Trump have all his qualities? See you on December 10.
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