“Who, if not President Trump, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?” asked Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Aug. 8, following negotiations that led to a Trump-brokered peace agreement between his country and neighboring Armenia.
The rival former Soviet republics, which inhabit a part of the world long believed to be in a resurgent Russia’s sphere of influence, have been at each other’s throats for nearly four decades — even prior to their achieving independence in 1991.
Now, as Trump proudly announced, they are “good friends” and will remain so “for a long time.” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan endorsed Aliyev’s sentiments about Trump deserving Nobel recognition and humbly mused that the U.S. president might invite the two former enemies to the award ceremony.
Trump promised to do so, assuring them front row seats.
Solving the once-intractable conflict in the Caspian Basin would itself merit a Nobel Peace Prize for anyone who achieved it, but there can be little doubt that President Trump deserves the prize for myriad additional reasons.
Since returning to office in January, he has initiated the first negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, the world’s deadliest ongoing conflict, which has raged for more than 3.5 years and inflicted over one million casualties.
In May, his administration brokered a durable ceasefire between India and Pakistan following military action over terrorist incidents in Kashmir.
That same month, the government of Kosovo credited him with forestalling a Serbian attack.
In June, Trump negotiated a peace agreement ending a three-year conflict between Congo and Rwanda, which had killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands.
Later that month, Trump deployed decisive U.S. military power to end the missile duel between Israel and Iran while also setting back Iran’s progress toward developing a nuclear weapon in what could have been the first case of nuclear proliferation in decades.
In July, the U.S. president reduced tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over Ethiopia’s recently completed dam on the Nile and brokered a ceasefire to stop deadly border skirmishes between Cambodia and Thailand, a simmering conflict that had displaced scores of thousands of civilians.
“I’ve solved seven wars,” Trump told Fox News last week, but not even that impressive record tells the whole story.
The Abraham Accords, a historic achievement realized near the end of his first term in 2020, ushered in the first peace agreements between Israel and majority Muslim countries since 1994, leading many observers at the time to advocate his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize.
By any objective standard, it’s hard to imagine any other individual or institution in the world today that has “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind in the field of peace,” which is the prize’s only criterion according to the will of its founder, the 19th century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.
Trump is aware of this and has stated both publicly and privately that he would be honored to receive the prize.
Other national leaders, who figure in the category of people eligible to nominate candidates, agree with him.
In addition to Aliyev and Pashinyan, who said so at the White House earlier this month, in July Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented Trump with a copy of his letter of nomination.
The day before Trump concluded the peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet announced on Facebook that he had nominated Trump for the prize for brokering the ceasefire between his country and Thailand.
Compare Trump’s record to the four previous American presidents who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Theodore Roosevelt received it in 1906 for brokering a peace treaty to end only one conflict, the Russo-Japanese War, which concluded the previous year.
Woodrow Wilson won the prize in 1919 for having proposed the League of Nations, a forerunner to the United Nations that disastrously failed to keep the peace after World War I, and which the United States itself refused to join.
Jimmy Carter was awarded the prize in 2002 for supposed “decades of work” promoting peace, human rights, and economic development despite his one-term administration’s doubtful legacy.
Barack Obama won the 2009 prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and foster cooperation between nations,” puzzlingly despite having only been elected to the presidency in November 2008 and assumed office just eleven days before the Jan. 31 nomination deadline for the following year’s prize.
Trump’s vastly greater second administration achievements and the nominations based on them postdate Jan. 31, 2025, so he may have to wait until next year for recognition.
But the fact remains that millions globally have benefited from his peaceful diplomacy in a way that simply no one else can claim.
If the Norwegian committee that grants the Nobel Peace Prize has any integrity, it will grant him the recognition he deserves.
Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. Read Paul du Quenoy’s Reports — More Here.
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