War Games & Peace Prizes: Is Trump Gunning for a Nobel?

It has become an all-toofamiliar spectacle: when the world teeters on the edge of conflict, Donald Trump, like a self-anointed prophet of peace, emerges with grand proclamations of diplomacy, dangerously close to his political vanity.

- TUSHI DEB

Backpacking the blitzkrieg of international anarchy, conflict, and wars with his relaxed but pompous, celebrated “ceasefire” rhetoric, the US president sounds more dominant than the GBU-57 Bunker Buster bomb:

"To subdue an enemy without fighting is the acme of skill,” stated Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese general around 500 BC, and this holds good ground even today. Currently, the world is caught up in a whirlpool of extreme violence inundated with flashpoints that is leading us to further violence. With the conflict in the Middle East threatening to engulf the entire region, the belligerents were hellbent with a Machiavellian desire to obliterate the other.

Is it the US hegemony or simply Trump's tectonics of peace, his shrewdness in being a deal maker, or simply his doctrine of MAGA (Making America Great Again) that is pulling the global peace and power strings?

Be it the India-Pakistan war, the Iran-Israel longstanding anarchy, or other global conflicts, they have undoubtedly pushed us across a vitriolic threshold. And critics with obvious ease are citing the situation as a super prospect for Trump to exploit this to assert a supremacist narrative. Whether a desired regime change in Iran or the supposed destruction of its nuclear capabilities, Trump roared for peace in the shrouds of war, asserted for arm-twisting, and blared the evils of destruction of Iran. Either way, the message he has always tried to convey is crystal clear: it's the American indispensability and the invisible power to reboot peace and trade in the most fastidious way!