Peace Prize nominations are worthless. Literally, worthless. Anyone can be nominated by anyone.
Yes, the fact that we didn't get into any hot war is pretty much the only thing that Trump has going for him, though it was partially due to others backing him off bad ideas.
He wanted to remove us from a South Korean defense agreement, which would have been huge for each country's economy and defenses.
He bombed an Iranian general in Iraq - it was a huge gambit of arguable utility, and the only reason the Iranians didn't get more international support for retaliation was because they shot down a civilian airliner on accident.
He talked so much crap to NK that there was serious concern of an escalation in fighting.
But, yes. We didn't have any major foreign-based terror attacks, and we didn't get entangled in fighting a new conflict.
As far as the peace deals, I think they could be good, but they haven't "fixed" anything yet. The Palestinians still have no sovereignty, the Israelis still deny Arabs rights of citizenship, Iran and SA still are at each other's throats while Yemen, AFAIK, is still a humanitarian crisis.
China is perpetrating a holocaust on ethnic minorities, and Trump congratulated Xi on his success there.
The man is no human rights hero.
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edit: Not to mention his domestic policy failings, his characterizations as sitting president of all who disagree with him as "enemies", his rhetoric around protesting, his encouragement toward violent right-wing actors, and his use of the National Guard to clear out a public square to get a picture taken with a holy book he has never read.
"He bombed an Iranian general in Iraq - it was a huge gambit of arguable utility, and the only reason the Iranians didn't get more international support for retaliation was because they shot down a civilian airliner on accident."
The utility of his action against Qassem Suleimani is not in question. It was clearly a very effective move. Whether this was justified depends on your viewpoint of Iranian actions in the Middle East.
Yes, the fact that we didn't get into any hot war is pretty much the only thing that Trump has going for him, though it was partially due to others backing him off bad ideas.
He wanted to remove us from a South Korean defense agreement, which would have been huge for each country's economy and defenses.
He bombed an Iranian general in Iraq - it was a huge gambit of arguable utility, and the only reason the Iranians didn't get more international support for retaliation was because they shot down a civilian airliner on accident.
He talked so much crap to NK that there was serious concern of an escalation in fighting.
But, yes. We didn't have any major foreign-based terror attacks, and we didn't get entangled in fighting a new conflict.
As far as the peace deals, I think they could be good, but they haven't "fixed" anything yet. The Palestinians still have no sovereignty, the Israelis still deny Arabs rights of citizenship, Iran and SA still are at each other's throats while Yemen, AFAIK, is still a humanitarian crisis.
China is perpetrating a holocaust on ethnic minorities, and Trump congratulated Xi on his success there.
The man is no human rights hero.
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edit: Not to mention his domestic policy failings, his characterizations as sitting president of all who disagree with him as "enemies", his rhetoric around protesting, his encouragement toward violent right-wing actors, and his use of the National Guard to clear out a public square to get a picture taken with a holy book he has never read.