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President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (9 children)

He thinks he stopped 8 wars? Which 8 wars?

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 27 points 1 day ago

He stopped them so early you haven't even heard of them! /s

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

They live in Canada, you wouldn't know them.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

I assume he dreamt about starting 8 new wars but didn't (or couldn't or forgot) and thus they were 'stopped'.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

World War 3 to 10. He was going to start them but got distracted with an underage beauty pageant.

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

His latest addition to his list of wars "ended" is the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The other seven were between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Most of these were few day long conflicts. Egypt and Ethiopia were not in war, they had decate long disagreement about a damn, and USA helped to mediate it. By my understandment Trump was not even part of the mediation.

Also if these count then he should say he has ended 9 wars because the military situation in Venezuela ended in few hours.

Trump saying he stopped wars is like me saying i saved a childs live today when i decited to not kill them.

[–] monoot@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

Maybe those he didn't start.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 23 hours ago

He takes credit for any skirmishes that subsided during his presidency even when he had nothing to do with them. And he hallucinates a few too.

He thinks he stopped 8 Wars PLUS!

Here's an episode of the bbc podcast More or Less on it, though it was 7 at the time

https://open.spotify.com/episode/37Ty7swQdBxFlJqDSFDzIt