The U.S. has no real say in whether she can travel.
I think the Nobel committee gave her an opportunity to secretly decline the award on grounds of personal danger, and she let them go ahead. So she effectively accepted in advance.
This is Google-translated from the web site of a newspaper the regime shut down:
Will María Corina Machado be able to travel to Oslo to receive the Peace Prize?
If it makes Trump feel any less like a spoiled toddler, I didn’t get a Nobel Peace prize, either. And I’ve never blown up any fishing boats or organized any violent insurrections.
UNFAIR!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The disgustingness is unbearable.
If you head up the Nobel Peace Prize committee, this is how you say “Trump doesn’t have courage nor integrity” without saying Trump doesn’t have courage nor integrity.
Nice job, Jørgen Watne Frydnes!
The guy who was tasked with finding all the “wars” in countries Trump never heard of lost his job for sure.
It was. But it pisses me off to no end that world leaders know they have to placate Trump to protect their own people and he believes they actually respect him.
It worked for Zelensky.
Can’t they at least give him some kind of participation trophy?
I don’t think there is any implication of that medal being apolitical or ever was, unlike the Nobel Peace Prize. The Medal of Freedom includes among its (very loose) criteria that the person may have made a contribution to “the security or the national interests of the United States”, which is explicitly political. Looking over the history of recipients, you’ll probably find a number of objectionable people no matter what your political viewpoint is.
It doesn’t seem like the Medal of Freedom has nearly the kind of prestige or importance of the Nobel Peace Prize, so it’s not a fair comparison.
The Nobel Prizes have never been perfect, but then no prize has ever been perfect. So what? If you look at the history of any attempt to choose the best in anything, either over a given time period or ever all history, it’s impossible for any human being or any collection of human beings to be correct all the time about anything. We’re just human beings, not some ultimate authority that’s always omniscient. Again, so what?
Anyone who gets bent out of shape for not getting a peace-related award was never worthy of it.
Wait until the revenge and retribution comes.
Fight my ignorance. Was he even nominated?
If I do a search on the question whether Trump was nominated, I get the following statement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not officially confirm the names of nominees until 50 years after the prize is awarded. Any information about nominations comes from the nominators themselves.
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Oh, man, action horror romance? I want that to be good.
But it doesn’t look like it’s good. I couldn’t even get through the trailer.
That’s dramatically understating it:
Kissinger had been instrumental in the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam in 1973. But he had also spent much of his political and academic career advocating for the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the development of a smaller “battlefield” range – Kissinger’s thesis that nuclear weapons could be used and were not just for deterrence.
He was a key decision-maker in the US’s “secret war” in Laos, which ran parallel to its operations in Vietnam, and in the US military’s invasion of Cambodia in 1970. More broadly, though, Kissinger’s political philosophy of realpolitik – politics based on practical objectives rather than ideals – appeared to have had little care for individual human life and saw global politics as a game between.
I recommend bracelets, chained together so the can’t be lost and closed with a secure, keyed ratcheting clasp so they can’t fall off or be stolen.
Stranger
Or Venice.
“Venezuela, that’s where Venice is, isn’t it? Where the moocows come from. Bigly”~~Trump.
I eat my peas with ketchup
I’ve done it all my life
It makes them taste real funny
But it does away with strife
Trump is so reviled in most of the civilized world that it’s hard to imagine any self-respecting organization awarding him any kind of honour for anything no matter what he does. It’s also hard to imagine that this idiot and his gang of incompetents could legitimately get credit for anything, other than maybe other nations reacting out of fear of their recklessness.