Don’t place any bets on that Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump. Even more serious is the fallout from Trump’s disavowal of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran. And the most damaging result of all may be that Trump’s Iran policy risks fracturing what’s left of the American alliance with Europe. The Nobel Prize, of course, is given by the Norwegians, among the most open-minded and idealistic of European nations. It was the Norwegian Nobel Committee that awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize not long after he took office, in part because he wasn’t George W. Bush and in part because of the hope he represented.

Source: Huffington Post May 14, 2018 18:22 UTC