The Nobel Peace Prize is used these days not to reward actions but to prevent actions. Obama was given the Prize before he had the time to do anything at all. We all laughed but what we didn’t get was that the whole point was to make sure that Obama continued not doing anything much on the international arena.
Putin wasn’t given such a preventative Nobel Peace Prize, and now nobody can stop him being maniacally active.
Today it seems that Angela Merkel will be given the next preventative Nobel because the world wants to take a rest from her endless efforts to be liked, to lecture, to control, to set an example, to hector, and to tutor.
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