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The nobel prize has been a joke since Kissinger won it anyway.
Nothing in the motivation for the peace prize says you can't start a war before making peace! This might be Trumps grand strategy. Imagine being the one who brokers peace in a war between NATO states. That's a guaranteed winner
Kissinger investigating war crimes in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Yet the war between Trump and his own diaper will continue unresolved.
While he is the ultimate bastard, there were others before him, like Willy Brandt.
What's wrong with Willy Brandt?
I read this comment like "before Kissinger, there were people who won the prize who weren't utter bastards".
Honestly, when I made that comment, I did think that he probably wasn't the earliest example.