Fyodor Lukyanov: Trump’s Venezuela move may have just earned him a Nobel peace prize

In a world where wars solve nothing, Trump’s brand of pressure politics may be the closest thing to modern peace

If there were an award for Most Unfulfilled Personal Wish of the Year, Donald Trump would be the runaway winner. His desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize has been so overt – and his actions so clearly aligned with that goal – that the disappointment is palpable. Eight wars stopped (by his own count), a ninth supposedly in the works – all in less than a year.