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Stop the presses: the Nobel Peace Committee just awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to María Corina Machado—Venezuelan opposition figure, sanctions advocate, and fan of military regime changes. The Norwegian Nobel Committee says she gets it for “tireless work promoting democratic rights … struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship.”

The award puts her in the same prestigious club of saints like Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama — two men whose peace pedigrees include carpet bombing, secret wars, drone campaigns, and regime change.

You thought the Nobel was about peace? Cute.

🎬 The Strange Theater of Nobel Politics

Trump (yeah, the most peaceful man on earth) was also under consideration this year, too (he lobbied for it hard). They declined to pick the man who pointed to the sky and said “I ended wars” — and instead gave it to someone in the business of destabilizing nations. Because the second‑most violent option is still good enough.

🧷Bonus ironies: Machado dedicated part of her prize to Trump, praising his “decisive support.”

So her “peace” is tied to someone who was in the running to be a laureate for peace by virtue of his early bombing deals. The symbolism is deliciously rotten.

To double down on the argument that the Nobel isn’t political, here is a list of the most recent winners. There is absolutely no pattern here, they all love peace and have nothing to do with the fact that they all seek to destabilize political powers in places that are not to the liking of ‘Murica’s peace-loving equalitarian regime.

• 2021: Dmitry Muratov, Russian opposition
• 2022: Ales Bialiatsky, Belarusian opposition
• 2023: Narges Mohammadi, Iranian opposition
• 2024: Nihon Hidankyo,  (to give people rolling their eyes a rest, even if for one year)
• 2025: Maria Machado, Venezuelan opposition

🧨 A Quick Recap: Kissinger & Obama’s Death Toll Résumés

Let’s not pretend this is a brand‑new problem. The Nobel has a history of rewarding those with blood on their hands.

• Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize (1973). Masterminded secret bombing in Cambodia (killing tens to hundreds of thousands), aided coups across Latin America, backed brutal regimes among other peaceful things. He is responsible for the deaths of over 3 million civilians

• Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize (2009). While in office, he expanded drone warfare, intervened in Libya, escalated Syria, and ran watch lists that led to civilian deaths. This bastion of peace is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan and was labeld as war criminal by Harvard. He also happens to be the peace-loving angel who started the sanctions spree that triggered Venezuela’s economic collapse.

You see the pattern: Nobel = political branding more than moral virtue.

🧨 Machado’s War‑By‑Diplomacy Acts (Yes, I Mean It)

Let’s peek at what Machado is being praised for:

🔫 The Israel Letter & Invasion Plea

Back in 2018, Machado penned a letter to Israel, (yes, the very regime under scrutiny for genocide) ,asking them to “use power” overthrow Maduro, no matter the consequences.

She also said Israel’s fight was Venezuela’s fight. Probably Venezuelans disagree, at least those who’re not into genocide and collective punishment.

🔥 Guarimbas: Chaos, Robbery & Death

She’s also accused of orchestrating or emboldening the Guarimbas — violent street protests in Venezuela.

Reports reveal these protests led to robberies, killings of people who didn’t support the protests involving peaceful methods like public lynching and burning civilians alive for looking like “Chavistas” (people who support Hugo Chavez).

Those protests caused widespread infrastructure damage calculated in the millions of dollars.

If those numbers check out, then “peace” under Machado might be code for “let’s let chaos reign until the government falls.”

💸 Sanctions = Silent Massacre

Machado has supported  and lobbied for sanctions against Venezuela. Reports estimate tens of thousands of deaths (40,000+ between 2017–2018) due to sanctions limiting access to medicine, food, and critical supplies.

A more general study argues U.S. sanctions worldwide kill ~564,000 people per year — a scale comparable to war. Sanctions don’t just punish governments. They punish people. Especially the poor, the sick, the weak. That’s not noble, that’s collective punishment with a cloak of legality.

Also, sanctions promoted by Machado on Venezuelans have caused $226 billion in economic losses, a 71% contraction, with revenues collapsed by 99%.

🪖 Troops, Oil, and Regime Change

While Maduro twiddles his thumbs, U.S. / allied forces are reportedly “inches away” from Venezuelan waters, doing anti‑narcotics operations and “counterterrorism patrols.” That’s the excuse.

The suspicion: it’s cover for regime change — killing or ousting Maduro, installing Machado, and grabbing Venezuela’s oil. Because those giant oil reserves don’t survive politely under tyranny.

The pieces fit too neatly: “peace prize” in hand, calls for invasion in pen, soldiers on the border. This may be chess, not diplomacy.

Yes, it sounds like a Bond movie… but also not far-fetched

🎯 Nobel Committee’s “Honestly, What Did You Expect?” Moment

Of course, here’s  a quote from the Nobel Committee.

“This committee sits in a room filled with portraits of all laureates … filled with both courage and integrity.”
— Nobel Committee Chair, defending awarding Machado over Trump
[FT source]

In other words: “We ignored the loudest war cheerleader to pick the second loudest.”

If this is what counts as “peace,” then maybe next year’s winner will be Lockheed Martin. Or the IDF. Or whoever bombs the most hospitals with the most humanitarian conviction.

They’ve just crowned a woman who arguably trades in violent disruption, economic warfare, and regime change fantasies. At the same time, they passed on the man who claims to broker wars as diplomacy.

This is less Nobel and more Propaganda House Award 2025.