A senior Ukrainian lawmaker who put Donald Trump forward for a Nobel Peace Prize has withdrawn his nomination.
Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine’s parliamentary foreign committee, told Newsweek on Tuesday that he had “lost any sort of faith and belief” in Trump and his ability to secure a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Merezhko said Trump had “virtually no reaction” to large-scale strikes on the Ukrainian capital in recent weeks, adding: “He has chosen the path of appeasement.”
Why nominate his bitch ass in the first place?
As per the article: Oleksandr Merezhko. Without knowing more about him, he does seem genuinely far from being on Russia’s payroll or part of the proto-fascist elements (beyond potentially the usual accidentally being a useful idiot like many centrist liberals end up being, sadly). Seems more like an old school centrist out of his depth, but with genuine convictions for liberalism, for what it’s worth.
My guess is that he either completely misestimated what Trump really is about - or maybe put forth the nomination to bait his narcissist side into doing more, with the prize serving as a carrot on a stick. Either way, he was quite wrong in hoping for Trump doing much to end the war.
Die fuhrer is a narcissist. Could have been trying to entice die fuhrer to support Ukraine over Daddy.
You don’t deal with narcissists by placating them. That just reinforces their narcissism and makes it worse.
Oh? So what are you supposed to do?
Search me. I’m no psychiatrist, but mockery works for me. That’s probably not an ideal approach either, but rewarding that kind of behaviour seems worse to me.
It’s best to just try to avoid them altogether, which probably isn’t possible in this case.
Die fuhrerschnitzel
The best justification for him receiving the nomination, or even winning, is simply reading the list of previous winners and nominees
Nonsense doublespeak prize for losers and rubes.
Because anyone can get nominated but it takes a real dickhead to be rescinded lol
Appeasement.
Because conservatives are still salty about Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. We’ve basically forgotten about it, but they think about that all the time.
Lol you’ll never win you piece of human garbage
Maybe if it was the Nobel Rape prize, or the Nobel Fraud prize, or the Nobel Fleece People For Everything They’ve Got Prize, you’d have a chance.
I think it’s the trump prize of fraud, rape, lies. Etc we should establish.
It’s called the “Golden Diaper.”
he is a peace of shit, that’s for sure
i am the candidate of peace. now… REST IN PIECES!!! 💣💣💥💥💥
Really? Why? Didn’t he say he was dropping bombs because it’s time for peace? Why would you withdraw such a noble prize to someone so peace-loving and earnest?
Fuck it, nothing means anything anymore. All institutions are crumbling. Give ‘em the Nobel Prize, give ‘em the Fields Medal, give ‘em the Heisman Trophy, give ‘em the Mark Twain award.
Yeah, I had the tiniest bit of faith in the Anti Defamation League, but after they called Musk’s stunt fair game I realized pockets of money could even buy ethics groups. From here on out, unless a group manages to zero its profits or earnings by the end of the year, they’re untrustworthy.
The ADL has been an anti-Palestinian hate group for years.
I stopped trusting humans in general. There is a good chance that anyone you meet on the street is a cryptofascist.
what is the crypto in cryptofascist?
Hidden closeted or undercover
that he had “lost any sort of faith and belief” in Trump and his ability to secure a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
I mean that’s a great assessment, nothing to add. I’m just not sure why it took him this long.
Read between the lines. He actually lost faith that sucking up to Trump will do anything at all.
Appealing to Trump’s vanity to get their way wasn’t a bad idea. We all know he’s narcissism incarnate.
Brilliant idea really.
Sometimes you can get what you want out of Trump by trying to appease him. In this case, his love of Putin is too strong for it to work, though.
I just want to thank you for the Corner Gas reference.
Can someone tell Pakistan there is a form to withdraw your nomination? That’d be great, thank you.
Wait… I thought Pakistan nominated him. Why nominate him as a Ukrainian when he wants you to give up parts of your invaded land. When he promised to end the war within 24h after inauguration, but did nothing but make a mess. When he’s Putin’s little bitch… Why are people trying so hard to make Idiocracy a reality?
We’ve blown way past idiocracy now. we’re deep into ‘don’t look up’ now
Going towards The Handmaid’s Tale
If a Nobel got him to calm down, I’d let him have it. It might as well be so much toilet paper anyway.
If Trump wants to go all full-dictator, he might as well look the part and adorn his chest with medals like a bird hoarding shiny objects.
Contemptible shitbag.
They did. I am confused too.
“I wanna suck his balls!”
“No, I want them balls, fuck off!”
“Hey, I was here first, his balls are already in my mouth, wait your turn bro!”
This FUCK is unbelievable. He wants a cookie for withdrawing a nomination which should never have been made in the first place? Should we applaud?
Read this garbage, talking about appeasement. This Merezhko a fascist himself, and every accusation is a confession. What about the literal far right extremists and nazi sympathizers in Ukraine who are responsible for the maidan massacre and helped grab power and start and escalate the civil war? What a fucking farce.
It needs to become clear to everyone that you can’t just demonize Putin and deify tools like Trump or also Obama. They all play geopolitics. They all only care about gaining and maintaining power. The world has gone fucking insane believing this shit.
Dildos can’t win peace prize.
Oh man, I thought he had that in the bag too.
He’s not having a good week so far.
The Peace Prize should be given to those who give justice and that’s certainly not Trump.
Nor are most of the actual recipients.
I would have thought Ukraine would pull him the moment of that stupid White House incident.
um, duh?
