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.
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.