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By John Helmer, Moscow
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President Donald Trump began rigging his latest attempt [3] to win the Nobel Peace Prize in January 2024, a year before the Norwegian Prize Committee closed the 2025 prize nominations on January 31. That was also eleven months before Trump was elected president to begin the peacemaking streak which he currently lists as Pakistan and India, Iran and Israel, Congo and Rwanda, Israel and Hamas, and Kosovo and Serbia.
Trump had told Republican congresswoman Claudia Tenney to file her nomination on January 30, 2024, and so – owing Trump a great deal of election campaign endorsements and money in 2018 [4] and again in 2024 [5] — Tenney did exactly that on January 30, 2024.
It’s not exactly clear from the Norwegian rules whether that nomination has been held over to qualify Trump for this year. So on April 24 at the White House Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to make sure of the rules. “I salute President Trump… on that we work together,” Støre said [6], adding: “on that prize, you know, there is a committee taking care of that which is completely working on its own terms and I cannot comment on that.”
Trump then told the Pakistan’s Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, to arrange for Pakistan to file its prize nomination; Trump lunched with Munir at the White House on June 18 [7]; the nomination was announced in Islamabad on June 21 [8].
Trump’s advisors thought a Muslim nomination mightn’t do the trick in Oslo so they recommended Trump ask for a Jewish one. This was produced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at dinner with Trump on July 8 [9].
The Prize Committee is due to announce the winner on October 10 [10]. Pope Leo XIII has agreed to come to Trump but not in time to nominate him [11].
The only Christian head of state to decline Trump’s invitation to a prize-winning session is President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Trump has been asking him since their telephone call on February 12 [12]. He repeated himself when they spoke on July 3 [13]. But Putin said no [14].
Trump has been announcing his response ever since. “I’m not happy with that”, he said [15] after five hours.“ An hour later [16]: “Yeah, I’m very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin…And I, I’m very disappointed.” On July 6 [17]: “I was very disappointed with my call with President Putin. I was very disappointed.” On July 7 [18], meeting with Netanyahu Trump repeated twice over: “I’m disappointed, frankly, that President Putin hasn’t stopped. I’m not happy about it.” On July 8 he told [19] a Cabinet meeting: “We’re not happy with Putin. I’m not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now ‘cause he’s killing a lot of people…And I’m not happy with Putin.”
Is this a cognitive symptom Trump is revealing?
Repetitive stress injury can affect the brain, according to Russian experts. US experts call it chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) from injuries to head. Obliteration – another repeated [20] Trump word – of brain cells is the direct cause. Visible symptoms, according [21] to the Mayo Clinic of Cleveland, are “Trouble thinking. Memory loss. Problems with planning, organizing and carrying out tasks. Behavioral changes. Impulsive behaviour. Aggression.”
In the new podcast [22] with Nima Alkhorshid, “Trump’s Masterplan DESTROYED by Putin in One Move!” we discuss the Russian diagnosis of Trump’s symptoms, and the new Kremlin decisions to follow.
In Moscow a very well-informed source comments: “Nobel Peace Prize was always the Olympic Gold for war criminals so he has that sealed. The Peace Prize repeat now includes Serbia and Kosovo. The slaps at Putin are explicit. Papa is disappointed that Vova is a bad boy and didn’t give him his ceasefire. We have to accept the Russian diplomacy option has failed and there is continuity in US policy. All the more reason and case for a very loud and unmistakable military victory.”
A NATO veteran comments: “He doesn’t need to be to more mentally competent than Biden. Everything is in place. From Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, law enforcement, the military, right down to the local pub; the raids, detentions, firings, threats, international aggression. It’s all baked in.”
THE NORWEGIAN PEACE PRIZE FIX – TRUMP AND STORE, APRIL 24
[23]Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZEsl69GKOQ [6] Min 3:58-4:38. In answer to a Norwegian reporter asking if Støre thinks Trump’s efforts on the Ukraine war deserve nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, Støre said: “I salute President Trump for having taken very important initiatives to get this conflict towards an end…on that we work together…on that prize, you know, there is a committee taking care of that which is completely working on its own terms and I cannot comment on that.” Trump then added: “Thank you very much for that question. I like that question.” Since 2018, the members of the Committee are Berit Reiss-Andersen (chair, of the Labour Party), Henrik Syse (deputy chair, of the Conservative Party), Thorbjørn Jagland (Labour Party), Anne Enger (Centre Party) and Asle Toje (Progress Party). Prime Minister Støre heads the Labour Party.
THE ISRAEL PEACE PRIZE FIX — JULY 7
[24]Netanyahu: Trump “is forging peace as we speak from one country and region after another…so [the Ietter] is nominating you for the Peace Prize which is well deserved and you should get it.” Trump: “Thank you very much, this I didn’t know.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDoRTbQAJs4 [9] At Minute 6:36 Trump says “we did a job with India and Pakistan, and with Serbia and Kosovo.”
TRUMP CALLS “BULLSHIT” ON PUTIN’S END-OF-WAR TERMS
[25]“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4qJsCqneLU [19] Min 5:26. This Axios report [26] discloses Trump’s decision to send ten Patriot missile batteries to Kiev; each battery has eight launchers. The number of missiles Trump has agreed to send has not been disclosed.
Click to view and listen [22] to the new Dialogue Works podcast, aired on July 9, 7:30 PM Moscow time, 12:30 pm New York time.
[27]Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuej555xllw [22]
For the full list of Dialogue Works podcasts, click here [28].