Trump and Putin Nobel Peace Prize 2020 and 2024
May 12, 2017jsc
Trump is right on Russia. Russia can be our greatest ally and friend in setting the stage for peaceful relations among all peoples and nations. Or could be if we would stop making war on them! Yes, Russia acts in ways that are aggressive, feeling threatened. We walked NATO up to Russian borders. Putin disrespected. Helped destabilize Ukraine. How would we feel if Russian missile batteries in Mexico? Or Quebec? Working to destabilize Texas. We must not only see the stick it our brother's and sister's eye. First attend to the beam in our own eye to see more clearly.
As history shows, time and time again, efforts to end war have failed. Peace is a hard sell. In recent history Kennedy and Khrushchev; Kennedy killed and Khrushchev banished as those who trusted war won the day. Gorbachev in 1986 offered to destroy all nuclear weapons by 2000. Reagan got weak kneed and compromised. Imagine if Reagan had the courage to say “yes” and we followed such a course. Instead in 2017 we have a humanity ever more threatened by nuclear destruction. War is winning, some say we are in opening stages of WWIII.
Imagine if we “Americans” really trusted the operative concept in the Preamble to our Constitution, justice ensures tranquility, the sine qua non of peace. And in an act of imagination Trump and Putin project that concept onto the global stage, a doctrine of peace, the Kellogg Briand Pact given the global authority to enforce the law against war.
Instead on social media evidence of an American consciousness traumatized during the cold war still evident in the bias on the evening news. Russia is to be feared. Russia is the enemy. America war conscious dominant. Law against war is not to be trusted.
It is evident this distrust and fear is being manipulated by the military industrial complex to favor those who favor war … all options on the table … America at high noon guns drawn.
In these ways Trump faces serious head wind in pursuing a Pro Peace Pro-Russia policy not only from a still traumatized WWII Cold War “America”, but a President who seems to get in the way of himself every day perhaps in impeachable ways. In politics as in love timing is everything.
Even so Trump is right on Russia. Friendship with Russia is the right direction for history.
Trump and Putin to take up Gorbachev’s challenge, updated: destroy all nuclear weapons by 2030. All the while, Russia and United States of America unite working with humanity to enforce the law against war, to end war in 2050. The Age of Peace.
In this way change the story on the evening news, and change the course of history …
Trump and Putin Nobel Peace Prize 2020 and 2024 and maybe beyond …