Trump's support for Zionist genocide in Gaza makes him an even less suitable candidate for this meaningless award than Obama was. All he wants is to one-up his political predecessors and rivals.
What is he bombing next? Who is he going to kill next?
John Mearsheimer: Trump is accomplice to genocide. You deliver to weapons to kill Gazans. You don't have to agree but it aren't only left Hamas loving antifa people calling it genocide.
All other weren't really wars, more disputes. Some might be instigated by the US themselves. Without Trump it would be the same, it was never going to be a full blown war.
The Noble Peace Price committee is giving the price to an opposition politician in South America who is on the payroll of the U.S. government and has been involved in previous military coups attempts in her country. Her advisor is arguing for the use force to overthrow the government. Ms. Machado’s plan is to the sell out whatever Venezuelans have to the foreign empire that pays her. -MoA-
Nobel peace price is a joke. Another western political driving institution. You can't take it serious after giving it to Obommer. The only reason why Trump wants it.
John Mearsheimer is complicit in the genocide as well because he pays taxes in the US. If he really was against the genocide he'd boycott the payment of his taxes. Also, he'd go over there and put his own boots on the ground to stop the genocide.
This just has to be a spoof post doesn’t it? Trump ordered the obliteration of at least two Venezuelan boats and their crews without a shred of evidence, and no due process. It is a shocking act of inhumanity.
It also possibly qualifies Trump as a war criminal.
Are you going to put him in a cell with Barack Obama as well for his drone strikes and the execution of American Citizens? Oh, and I missed the due process Obama gave to Bin Laden - was it fair and speedy?
Prizes, like everything else, have gotten very political (they've always been a little political).
Reminds me of news outlets getting Pulitzers for COVID reporting that favored zoonotic origin and called the lab leak theory racist, favored prolonged shut downs of business and schools, belittled natural immunity, and uncritically accepted six foot distancing only to later report it had no scientific evidence to support it.
Yep, this comment was my opinion which has a political bias. But I'm not trying to pass this comment off as expert analysis coming from a trusted arbiter of truth.
The writer flies over the facts that Trump was instrumental in fermenting the Ukraine war by arming Ukraine during his first term already. During his second term his policy was basically trying to force the Russian Federation to accept losing a war they are actually winning and he keeps arming Ukraine via Europe. AND, the full support of the GAZA GENOCIDE and the arming of Israel weight heavily against him. These are the two most substantial military conflicts of the decade up to now. Gaza is actually a major genocidal act that has the capacity to undermine Israel’s existence on the long run. This one will reverberate into the distant future with unforeseen consequences. America was drawn into the inconclusive Iran vs. Israel conflict mainly because Iran has the potential to provide an effective defensive umbrella to Gaza and to stop Israel's further expansions.
He is 100% supporting and he has active US military killing unarmed civilians in Gaza. He is murdering civilians in boats outside Venezuela. He has Ok'd CIA operations to kill Russian civilians and you wrote an article claiming "they" made a mistake by not giving Trump a "peace" prize. Good Lord man, I will not say anything more because I know you will just delete the post This is so called journalism in 2025
It has been a complete joke ever since Obama got one for . . basically nothing. I was an Obama fan at the time and even I could see it was ridiculous and embarrassing then.
If it is to be a left-wing partisan prize it will continue to fade into irrelevance.
That said, the ink isn't even dry on the cease fire yet, so I think it is fair to withhold the prize on that basis.
Total madness - who is this guy - writes commonsense on weapons but this is rubbish.
This week the Nobel prize for Physics was given to scientists for their work in 1980s (plus for surviving 40 years more).
The Nobel Prize for Peace has been given to a woman whose work in Venezuela post planned regime change has not yet begun.
This is Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma 1991) all over again. It is Jaun Gaido again.
Trump's contribution to peace last from yesterday until the Israelis break their ceasefire - which is either some time next week or immediately when they fail to withdraw.
For those in doubt there is a ceasefire in Lebanon which the Israelis have broken 4600 times in less than a year, have they haven't withdrawn from 5 regions.
(And frankly I like Trump - far better than Biden or Harris).
I agree with the many commenters observing that that giving the award to Obama cemented the final descent of its prestige into the toilet. However, leaving aside the trend of recent years toward awarding the Peace Prize to more dubiously qualified individuals, I really can't see how anyone could believe Trump deserves this award.
The US presidency is truly the "bully pulpit," As such, a major part of a president's influence on world peace is his rhetoric, and a good part of Trump's rhetoric is bellicose in the extreme--threatening violence in an attempt to get his way by force. This is the Roman "they make a desert and call it peace." And when he does make seemingly peaceful speech, such as expressing regret about lost lives and saying we need to stop the dying, he seldom comes off as sincere.
Trump's open and obvious lobbying for the award ill becomes the presidency. The president should be above "fishing for compliments."
Lastly but most importantly, we must consider his actions as a whole, and many of Trump's acts are the opposite of peace-promoting. Arming Ukraine to support a government known to have been established by coup, droning Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, continuing to supply Israel with the very bombs and other arms known to be instrumental in the massive civilian deaths in Gaza, preemptively bombing Iran, and providing air cover for the Israeli assassination attempts of Hamas leaders in Qatar (a known US ally!) are just some of the examples. Does a leader who exhibits this pattern of behavior over 10 years really sound like a "man of peace"?
IMO, the notion that Trump who has energetically supported Israeli genocide, bombed Iran and continues to support Ukraine, should receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- an honor already stained by having awarded it to warmongers like Kissinger and Obama -- is, of course absurd. "Wanting" peace in Ukraine without trying to understand the Russian position and American/NATO culpability in causing the war in the first place is like a child wanting more candy when the "grown-up" in the room says "you've had enough" (and we know who the grown-ups in the room actually are). Despite clear and obvious examples of genuine efforts for peace in the world on the part of people like Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg, the wimpy Norwegians, wishing to avoid the global embarrassment of nakedly fulfilling Trump's adolescent desires, opted to throw him a bone by giving the award to Marina Corina Machado, the Empire's "regime-change" bitch in waiting hoping to run Venezuela for its wanna-be U.S. masters and their big corporate friends. 'Nuff said!
The "Russian position" that the dictator of the largest country on Earth (by far) wants more land and resources - when his corrupt regime can't develop what they have. More for his cabal to plunder ...
Of course, it is a sick joke that Trump could be a Nobel laureate, but then again, so was Obama.
So what great virtue led to the naming of María Corina Machado?
Simple. She has been doing the dirty work of the Empire. María Corina Machado was among the signatories of the Carmona Decree, issued on April 12, 2002, during the brief coup against democratically elected Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela. This document, signed by Pedro Carmona as interim president, dissolved Venezuela's legislative and judicial branches and was endorsed by approximately 400 opposition figures, including Machado, a co-founder of the NGO Súmate. Her signature led to treason charges against her, which were later dropped.
Trump's support for Zionist genocide in Gaza makes him an even less suitable candidate for this meaningless award than Obama was. All he wants is to one-up his political predecessors and rivals.
Illegal war against Iran.
Illegal blowing up boats.
What is he bombing next? Who is he going to kill next?
John Mearsheimer: Trump is accomplice to genocide. You deliver to weapons to kill Gazans. You don't have to agree but it aren't only left Hamas loving antifa people calling it genocide.
All other weren't really wars, more disputes. Some might be instigated by the US themselves. Without Trump it would be the same, it was never going to be a full blown war.
The Noble Peace Price committee is giving the price to an opposition politician in South America who is on the payroll of the U.S. government and has been involved in previous military coups attempts in her country. Her advisor is arguing for the use force to overthrow the government. Ms. Machado’s plan is to the sell out whatever Venezuelans have to the foreign empire that pays her. -MoA-
Nobel peace price is a joke. Another western political driving institution. You can't take it serious after giving it to Obommer. The only reason why Trump wants it.
Machado is a standard choice.
It's basically the Nobel Prize for trying to help Neoimperial Capitalism.
So yes Mr Cheung aka Oddjob, you and your demented boss are right.
It is indeed political. Always.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
John Mearsheimer is complicit in the genocide as well because he pays taxes in the US. If he really was against the genocide he'd boycott the payment of his taxes. Also, he'd go over there and put his own boots on the ground to stop the genocide.
Satire I assume?
maybe, if so i missed it.
Hilarious. Preposterous syncophancy. Stephen hoping to land a magaworld gig.
"The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has done a significant disservice by refusing to name Donald Trump as the awardee for 2025."
This just has to be a spoof post doesn’t it? Trump ordered the obliteration of at least two Venezuelan boats and their crews without a shred of evidence, and no due process. It is a shocking act of inhumanity.
It also possibly qualifies Trump as a war criminal.
Are you going to put him in a cell with Barack Obama as well for his drone strikes and the execution of American Citizens? Oh, and I missed the due process Obama gave to Bin Laden - was it fair and speedy?
My post was not a comparison of the merits, merely that Trump’s arse is on fire!
Please do not put words into my mouth.
Why not? You've already got a blind eye...
You must be psychic - how did you know I’ve lost an eye? That’s truly uncanny.
Remember the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to Obama just for breathing. That gives you an idea of what it is worth.
Not only for breathing. For the colour of his skin.
That too.
Ever since, the prize is rubbish. Melt it down and make a fortune on the gold.
Prizes, like everything else, have gotten very political (they've always been a little political).
Reminds me of news outlets getting Pulitzers for COVID reporting that favored zoonotic origin and called the lab leak theory racist, favored prolonged shut downs of business and schools, belittled natural immunity, and uncritically accepted six foot distancing only to later report it had no scientific evidence to support it.
Yep, this comment was my opinion which has a political bias. But I'm not trying to pass this comment off as expert analysis coming from a trusted arbiter of truth.
The writer flies over the facts that Trump was instrumental in fermenting the Ukraine war by arming Ukraine during his first term already. During his second term his policy was basically trying to force the Russian Federation to accept losing a war they are actually winning and he keeps arming Ukraine via Europe. AND, the full support of the GAZA GENOCIDE and the arming of Israel weight heavily against him. These are the two most substantial military conflicts of the decade up to now. Gaza is actually a major genocidal act that has the capacity to undermine Israel’s existence on the long run. This one will reverberate into the distant future with unforeseen consequences. America was drawn into the inconclusive Iran vs. Israel conflict mainly because Iran has the potential to provide an effective defensive umbrella to Gaza and to stop Israel's further expansions.
He is 100% supporting and he has active US military killing unarmed civilians in Gaza. He is murdering civilians in boats outside Venezuela. He has Ok'd CIA operations to kill Russian civilians and you wrote an article claiming "they" made a mistake by not giving Trump a "peace" prize. Good Lord man, I will not say anything more because I know you will just delete the post This is so called journalism in 2025
It has been a complete joke ever since Obama got one for . . basically nothing. I was an Obama fan at the time and even I could see it was ridiculous and embarrassing then.
If it is to be a left-wing partisan prize it will continue to fade into irrelevance.
That said, the ink isn't even dry on the cease fire yet, so I think it is fair to withhold the prize on that basis.
You want to nominate someone who names his defense department war department? This must be a joke.
The biggest mistake of the Nobel committee was to give Obama a peace price. Unless that what drone kills get you, ever lasting peace...
Total madness - who is this guy - writes commonsense on weapons but this is rubbish.
This week the Nobel prize for Physics was given to scientists for their work in 1980s (plus for surviving 40 years more).
The Nobel Prize for Peace has been given to a woman whose work in Venezuela post planned regime change has not yet begun.
This is Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma 1991) all over again. It is Jaun Gaido again.
Trump's contribution to peace last from yesterday until the Israelis break their ceasefire - which is either some time next week or immediately when they fail to withdraw.
For those in doubt there is a ceasefire in Lebanon which the Israelis have broken 4600 times in less than a year, have they haven't withdrawn from 5 regions.
(And frankly I like Trump - far better than Biden or Harris).
I agree with the many commenters observing that that giving the award to Obama cemented the final descent of its prestige into the toilet. However, leaving aside the trend of recent years toward awarding the Peace Prize to more dubiously qualified individuals, I really can't see how anyone could believe Trump deserves this award.
The US presidency is truly the "bully pulpit," As such, a major part of a president's influence on world peace is his rhetoric, and a good part of Trump's rhetoric is bellicose in the extreme--threatening violence in an attempt to get his way by force. This is the Roman "they make a desert and call it peace." And when he does make seemingly peaceful speech, such as expressing regret about lost lives and saying we need to stop the dying, he seldom comes off as sincere.
Trump's open and obvious lobbying for the award ill becomes the presidency. The president should be above "fishing for compliments."
Lastly but most importantly, we must consider his actions as a whole, and many of Trump's acts are the opposite of peace-promoting. Arming Ukraine to support a government known to have been established by coup, droning Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, continuing to supply Israel with the very bombs and other arms known to be instrumental in the massive civilian deaths in Gaza, preemptively bombing Iran, and providing air cover for the Israeli assassination attempts of Hamas leaders in Qatar (a known US ally!) are just some of the examples. Does a leader who exhibits this pattern of behavior over 10 years really sound like a "man of peace"?
Oh, come on - he should have been given the prize just for rebranding the War Dept.
India and Pakistan! Seriously, Brian? Or am I missing sarcasm!
I'd like to see Trump trying to find them on a map.
IMO, the notion that Trump who has energetically supported Israeli genocide, bombed Iran and continues to support Ukraine, should receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- an honor already stained by having awarded it to warmongers like Kissinger and Obama -- is, of course absurd. "Wanting" peace in Ukraine without trying to understand the Russian position and American/NATO culpability in causing the war in the first place is like a child wanting more candy when the "grown-up" in the room says "you've had enough" (and we know who the grown-ups in the room actually are). Despite clear and obvious examples of genuine efforts for peace in the world on the part of people like Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg, the wimpy Norwegians, wishing to avoid the global embarrassment of nakedly fulfilling Trump's adolescent desires, opted to throw him a bone by giving the award to Marina Corina Machado, the Empire's "regime-change" bitch in waiting hoping to run Venezuela for its wanna-be U.S. masters and their big corporate friends. 'Nuff said!
The "Russian position" that the dictator of the largest country on Earth (by far) wants more land and resources - when his corrupt regime can't develop what they have. More for his cabal to plunder ...
Of course, it is a sick joke that Trump could be a Nobel laureate, but then again, so was Obama.
So what great virtue led to the naming of María Corina Machado?
Simple. She has been doing the dirty work of the Empire. María Corina Machado was among the signatories of the Carmona Decree, issued on April 12, 2002, during the brief coup against democratically elected Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela. This document, signed by Pedro Carmona as interim president, dissolved Venezuela's legislative and judicial branches and was endorsed by approximately 400 opposition figures, including Machado, a co-founder of the NGO Súmate. Her signature led to treason charges against her, which were later dropped.