I suppose it isn't fair for me to blame a whole country, but still. Remember when it was a travesty that you could win a Peace Prize for filming yourself giving a PowerPoint presentation? Remember those times? Those were better times.
I know that the most likely explanation is that the Prize committee is trying to use its recognizability to influence global politics, and that through this endorsement, they hope to encourage leaders to at least claim to use diplomacy as the primary instrument of foreign policy. If that is the case, I disagree with what they're doing, but I can understand it. That said, I prefer to think that we, as a species, have come to a point where we indisputably suck at peace, and that the committee just couldn't do any better.
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