Trump's transparent desire for the Nobel Peace Prize is not playing well

[Ocelot II]

44. The controversy over the 1973 award wasn't necessarily just because it was given to Kissinger;

it was because the basis for the award, the Paris Peace Accords, was a sham. The deal was negotiated by Kissinger, who was then the NSA, and Lê Đức Thọ, representing North Vietnam. The government of South Vietnam wasn't represented or even informed, and of course they didn't know what was being discussed or agreed to because the negotiations were held in secret. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, the president of South Vietnam, refused to agree to the draft agreement when presented with it, but later, after Nixon threatened to abandon South Vietnam if it didn't go along with the deal, Thiệu had little choice but to take it. The agreement mostly got the US out of Vietnam but the North and South kept on fighting and the war continued for another two years until North Vietnam's forces overtook the South, the US having refused to offer any more support by providing equipment and weapons. Saigon fell in 1975 and remaining US personnel were evacuated. The Paris accords were deemed a failure because South Vietnam was "pressurized into accepting an agreement that virtually ensured its collapse."

Does any of this sound kind of familiar?