Hillary Clinton said that if Donald Trump could successfully achieve a very difficult goal — ending the war in Ukraine in a fair way — she would actually nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She made the comment during an interview on the “Raging Moderates” podcast, just two days before Trump was scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. Clinton criticized the meeting as being quickly and poorly planned, but acknowledged that it was happening and urged Trump not to give in to Putin.
She reminded Trump that she knows he wants the Nobel Peace Prize and told him the way to earn it would be by convincing Putin to agree to a ceasefire, to stop trading land between Russia and Ukraine, and to start pulling his forces out of the areas Russia had taken. She said that if Trump could make Putin take those steps, it would show he was acting in good faith and working toward peace.
Clinton stressed that her main concern was preventing the United States from helping Putin gain more power by giving in to his demands. She also warned Trump that Putin’s real aim is to weaken the United States and the Western alliance, and that Trump needs to stop seeing Putin through “rose-colored glasses” and start recognizing him as a dangerous opponent.
She emphasized that Trump is not meeting a friend, but an adversary who will try to manipulate him. In her view, the best possible outcome from the meeting might simply be that nothing gets agreed upon — except that Trump comes away with a better understanding that Putin is not someone who can be trusted to keep a deal.
Despite this, Trump appeared confident he could convince Putin to end the years-long conflict, even though there’s no evidence Putin is willing to make the necessary compromises.
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