The Nobel Peace Prize is usually announced on Friday on the first full week of October. This year it will be October 11. If Donald Trump is able to get both Putin and Zelenskyy wrapped up by the end of August, Trump’s fantasy might well begin to look real. At least one of the countries is a nuclear power, which helps in the citation. But the window of opportunity is fast closing. It will help if Putin endorses him too. Zelenskyy might prove a little tricky. That’s the problem with stand-up comedians, as we all know in this part of the world. Zelenskyy’s arm has been twisted quite a bit, once quite openly in the White House and on Prime Time. That leaves other parts of his body that can be worked over, though. This is where the rest come in: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who sometimes gives the impression that he is Trump’s ventriloquist’s doll; those Pentagon guys who are currently in favour; and that NATO chief, Mark Rutte, who ought to be wearing a MAGA cap and sounds as though he voted more than once for Trump and in more than one American polling booth in the same election and even stands ready to annex Greenland for Trump. You know, the rest of Trump’s in-crowd, who now include Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Delhi is not part of those folks right now, although it is possible to discern that Delhi desperately wants Putin and Zelenskyy to kiss and make up after the August 15 meeting between Trump and Putin. We will come to that. Not because it........

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