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With unmatched military and diplomatic leverage, the United States held the greatest capacity to restrain escalation — and now bears the heaviest share of its consequences.

American military supremacy, after years in which its credibility had frayed at the edges, has reasserted itself in terms the world cannot misread.

Oleksandr Merezhko, who once nominated Trump for the prize, now says he has “lost faith” in the president’s ability to broker peace, mirroring growing international backlash.