𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"It would be a real shame if this photo of President Barak Obama receiving the *actual* Nobel Peace Prize goes viral today for no apparent reason
kravietz 🦇@Lana This granted right after Obama’s reset with Russia following its invasion on Georgia was probably the dumbest application of the prize ever.
It took less than 30 seconds to debunk this lie about why Obama received the prize.
I had an entirely different perception in 2009 when he actually received it. Russians were very supportive of Obama’s prize because he effectively granted them green light after Georgia. Medvedev, who was president back then, congratulated Obama.
And if you’d scrolled a bit down:
The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding the prize to Obama failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would. “Even many of Obama’s supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,” he says. “In that sense the committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for.”
Please show me the evidence that Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was given to him because of his involvement in the Russian invasion of Georgia. I'll wait, Mr Evidence.
Here we go:
- 1 August 2008 #Russia invaded #Georgia. By the way, here’s a nice - and quite prophetic, as we now see from that time:
Republican candidate for Vice President Sarah Palin warned in October 2008 that the election of Barack Obama would cause a new conflict involving Russia: “After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade #Ukraine next.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
What happens next, following #Obama’s “indecision and moral equivalence”?
- March 6, 2009 in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a red button with the English word “reset”.
- September 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. was dropping the Bush administration’s plan to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. Russia had viewed the planned missile shield as a military threat. Vladimir Putin said the decision was “correct and brave”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset
And then, the grand finale:
- 9 October 2009 The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States president Barack Obama for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize#Aftermath
Your "evidence" is literally Sarah Palin going "trust me bro" LMFOOOO
Anyway here's Putin admitting that the plan to invade Georgia was cooked up in 2006. Three guesses who was POTUS in 2006, and none of them rhyme with Shmobama, you right wing hack.
I'm done here. You're cooked. #toodles.
@Lana It’s not about what Obama did or did not to prevent the war in Georgia, it’s about what he did in response - that is, nothing.
Svante@Lana I wouldn't say that Obama's indecisiveness was the deciding factor for the gradual up-scaling of Russian aggression, but it definitely helped, and probably was a (for Russia) important part of the lackluster international reaction.
I remember that many people said things like »yeah, OK, he's much better than the one before, but a /peace price/ seems a bit far fetched.«
But of course, not nearly as far fetched as even this joke toy from fifa.
@Ardubal Pop quiz, who was president in 2006?