Another possible reason for the rush is Trump’s long-standing obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
“They would never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. I deserve it, but they would never give it to me,” Trump said last month.
Despite Trump’s pressure to end the war as soon as possible, Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, an actual Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO, which has spent over a decade documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine, believes that there will be no permanent end to the fighting without an effort to seek justice.
“I think [the U.S.] has a completely different goal, looking at this situation from a short-term perspective. At this stage, their task is to achieve peace, as they see it. And in this case, quite often justice and peace are mutually contradictory categories,” said Matviichuk. “Pursuit of justice prevents a quick settlement.”
Her center has documented more than 81,000 possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Russia launched the illegal war, indiscriminately bombed cities, massacred civilians, kidnapped children, executed prisoners of war, tortured people in captured territories and stripped them of their nationality and many other crimes.
“Justice is a prerequisite for sustainable peace, especially when we are talking about Russia, which has been using wars as a method of achieving its political interests for decades, and for decades has been using war crimes as a method of winning those wars,” Matviichuk said.
