“Who, if not President Trump, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?” asked Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Aug. 8, following negotiations that led to a Trump-brokered peace agreement between his country and neighboring Armenia.

The rival former Soviet republics, which inhabit a part of the world long believed to be in a resurgent Russia’s sphere of influence, have been at each other’s throats for nearly four decades — even prior to their achieving independence in 1991.

Now, as Trump proudly announced, they are “good friends” and will remain so “for a long time.” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan endorsed Aliyev’s sentiments about Trump deserving Nobel recognition and humbly mused that the U.S. president might invite the two former enemies to the award ceremony.

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