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by lettergram 992 days ago
To be fair, Obama was granted a Nobel peace prize almost as soon as he got in office (just for being in office)… it was also right before continuing the drone assassination campaign, including the extra judicial killing of US citizens without trial

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...

I’ve always views the Nobel peace prize as a political body. Designed to highlight and reward people of a certain persuasion.