Hillary Clinton Offers ‘Dream’ Scenario for Peace in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Her vision includes a path to Trump’s ‘elusive’ Nobel Peace Prize by standing up to Putin.
Hillary Clinton has a dream.
And on the morning of President Donald Trump’s planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska, the former secretary of state, former Democratic presidential candidate and Trump foe laid out a dream scenario that would bring peace to the Ukrainian and Russian people and, perhaps deliver that “elusive” Nobel Peace Prize to the president.
“I understand from everything that I have read, he very much would like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton said of Trump during an interview—that was taped on Wednesday and aired Friday—with Jessica Tarlov, co-host of the podcast Raging Moderates. “And honestly if he could bring about the end to this terrible war where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country, try to change the borders, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to in a way validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity to make it clear that there must be a ceasefire, there will be no exchange of territory, and that over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized in order to demonstrate his good faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security.”
Clinton went on to say, “if we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Clinton’s goal, she added, was not to allow capitulation to Putin, and for Trump not to come off as a Neville Chamberlain (the former United Kingdom prime minister best known for his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, particularly his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938) in the dealings and instead channel his successor Winston Churchill, by making a stake against aggression, freedom and democracy.
On a more realistic note and among media reports that the summit on American soil already puts Mr. Putin at an advantage, Clinton described the military base backdrop of their meeting as a place where the United States “sends up fighter planes to watch and fend off Russian bombers that routinely harass our military assets, do overflights, [and] engage in provocative behavior in the skies above Alaska.”
“He’s not meeting with a friend,” Clinton said. “He is meeting with an adversary who hopes to play him.”
The best thing Clinton believed could come out of the meeting was “nothing.” Except, she added, the hope that President Trump “will take off the blinders” he has worn in dealing with Putin in the past and “recognize that he’s dealing with someone who wants to see the destruction of the United States and the Western Alliance.”
Former President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Since the start of Trump’s second term in office, the president has campaigned for the recognition for his work in facilitating a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May and the ongoing global conflicts. Trump reportedly spoke to the prime minister of Norway about a Nobel Peace Prize nomination while garnering other nominations from Pakistan, Cambodia, Israel, administration officials and GOP lawmakers.
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