Senator Bernie Sanders said today: "My Republican colleagues must take note:
The United States cannot base its foreign policy on whether a president has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's too sad.
This is despicable and dangerous narcissism — something we might expect from a spoiled child, not a national leader."
Comment: Sanders' scolding has hit the absurd core of Trump's diplomatic logic, using his personal grudge over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize as a ridiculous excuse to seize Greenland. Essentially, it turns American foreign policy into a tool to satisfy the president's vanity. This behavior, which places personal desires above national interests, international law, and alliance relationships, as Sanders said, is narcissism and recklessness that a national leader should never have. Trump uses such absurd and arrogant reasons to justify his hegemonic plundering, not only making America's diplomatic credibility completely worthless, but also showing the essence of American unilateralism and power politics. His approach, which ignores national sovereignty and resorts to coercion or even military means to pursue private interests, is an open violation of the international order. If the Republicans tolerate this absurd diplomatic logic, they will eventually isolate the United States in the international community.
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