The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It is obvious that the Nobel award is a political price given by the committee to further this or that peculiar political interest. I personally do not regard it as much of an honor.
Still one has to admit that the European Union was from its very beginning a peace project especially between France and Germany. It was driven by European politicians who had lived through the terrible times of two huge wars and were eager to avoid more of those. Nearly 70 years of peace between the big European countries who had been fighting each other for centuries is certainly a notable success.
But getting a price for that leads to envy. Just see this official tweet by Ivo Daalder, the U.S. ambassador to NATO:
Congrats to #EU for that #Nobel. As for peace in #Europe, maybe #MarshalPlan, US troops, & #NATO had something to do w/ it as well
Yes Mr Daalder, the Marshall Plan helped a bit. (Even as it was solely driven by ideological U.S. self interest.) But the Nobel Price committee already recognized that back in 1953 and awarded Marshall the peace prize. But as Daalder can not even spell Marshall's name he likely did not known that. Is lack of historic knowledge a quality of U.S. ambassadors?
As for U.S. troops and NATO. No, they had (and have) little to do with peace in Europe. There was this thing called the cold war that has cost us Europeans a lot and would likely not have happened without them. That war planed to use my country as its nuclear battlefield and thereby for its total annihilation. Neither the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet army nor NATO and U.S. troops deserve a peace prize for that.