Truly, madly, deeply: Trump’s desire for a Nobel peace prize is driving diplomacy
by Andrew Roth in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#70N1F)
The US president's fervid pursuit of the award is believed to have been a key motivator in brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza
Never before has a Nobel peace prize - or indeed any prize, decoration or gold star - loomed so large over a US president and their foreign policy.
Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump's campaign to influence the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway has been anything but subtle - but with just hours to go before the award is announced, it has gone into overdrive.
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