Organisers clarify award ‘cannot be revoked, shared or transferred’ after Venezuelan opposition leader’s comments
The organisers of the Nobel peace prize have said it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said she wanted to give her award to Donald Trump.
When Machado was named Nobel laureate in October, it was seen as a snub by the White House, despite Machado rushing to dedicate the prize to the US president and his “decisive support of our cause”.
Trump has made no secret of his strongly held desire to be awarded the Nobel peace prize, the winner of which is selected by an independent five-person committee in Oslo.
“Spineless cunt is denied the opportunity to bend over for immature tyrant” - FTFY
It makes sense that one who is spineless would naturally be bent over.
From her perspective it’s the correct move. To gain back control of the country a Nobel prize will not be helpful, American support will.
This would get the democratically elected government in charge, instead of Maduros cronies.
If the American president is that easy to bribe, that’s a problem for the US. She’s just playing by the new rules.
America shouldn’t be anywhere near Venezuela, but if you get handed a Deus ex machina, you take it.
I totally agree that’s how it looks for her. It’s an example of a prisoners dilemma.
Short term it’s best to just make trump happy and try to salvage sanity from the bullshit.
Long term though, she’s just validating all the bullshit trump is doing, adding to his power, and telling him that if he screams loud enough he will always eventually get his way. Trump will be a worse person, Venezuela will be a temporary reprieve and then be worse off, and the whole world has a larger mess to clean up.
World would be so much better if people didn’t fall prey to prisoners dilemmas and actually made the best long term decision for everyone every time. Might be getting too late to ever see that world tbh.
Bottom line is nobody should be feeding the orange infant.
More in general, “American support” isn’t necessarily a positive thing in the mid or long term, especially in Latin America and even more in the present age when Fascism is normalized in American and Fascists get elected to lead the US.
For her it risks being like a drowning person getting a nose to put around her neck to be pulled out of the water.
Except no she doesn’t care about Venezuelans if she did she wouldn’t cheer on their bombing and blockading and promise to hand over all resources to America.
it’s incredibly shameful how these oposition figures are so quick to give away their country to the Orange Pedo for a shot at the presidency… not a thought about the Venezuelan people
She pretty much conspired with trump from the get-go to remove maduro.
Not spineless greedy and imperialist she is not giving in to demands she has long advocated for turning all Venezuelan resources over to American companies.
Eh, I could see it as a reasonable deal from her perspective. If giving Trump a pointless shiny metal disk got him to actually back democratic reform in Venezuela, sure, give him the shiny metal disk. Whatever, it’s just a thing.
Unfortunately it wouldn’t work, though; Trump never sticks to his deals after he’s got what he wanted out of them or when he sees an opportunity to squeeze even more out of you. So might as well keep the shiny metal disk.
Yeah, she believes in her cause far more than a shiny metal disk, which if given up the rest of the world will know what happened. Not like she was motivated by it, and it’s the only card she really has when dealing with the US military. Certainly not worth calling her a spineless… That.
Her cause is turning over all resources to us companies.
You really think that would’ve been her cause had the 2024 election gone a different way?
She’s been clear about this for more than a decade now and spent much of the last few years even before 2024 praising Trump, Milei and friends so yes.