“The Nobel Committee has compromised the prize” by not foreseeing how Ms. Machado and Mr. Trump would use it to justify military intervention in Venezuela, Ms. Lindgren said.
Lena Lindgren is a columnist for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet.
Steve Striffler had foreseen it.:
Oct 2025: How Trump got his Nobel Peace Prize after all | By giving the award to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has effectively crowned Trump’s vision of power and intervention as ‘peace’.
It is that, in awarding the prize to Machado, the Nobel Committee has provided an open invitation for Trump to continue, and even escalate, military intervention and gunboat diplomacy in Latin America. For Venezuela, this means violent regime change is firmly on the table.
Algeria
PS: Steve Striffler is Professor of Anthropology at UMass Boston. He is the author of Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in Era of Human Rights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/americas/machado-trump-meeting-nobel-peace-prize.html
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Compromised the prize previously given to Henry Kissinger?
Well, She’s not wrong.
She apparently tried to present the physical medal to Trump. And John Bolton (old UN diplomat) said he was always worried Trump would try to pocket Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize from the Roosevelt room.
The Nobel Committee? The same one that gave Obama the prize for what… getting elected? The same one that gave it to Yasser Arafat? And Henry Kissinger?
The peace prize has been a joke for quite a while.
For years I’ve wanted us to stop giving out the peace prize. It only ever leads to diplomatic headaches and embarrassment.
I haven’t trusted the Nobel Committee for years! And now less then ever.
Time to end the Nobel Peace Prize
The committee can do 3 things to save its reputation.
1. Strip Machado if he award.
2. Award the 2025 prize to the runner up
3. Bar Trump and Machado from ever winning one in the future.
The right wing Frp members wanted to give to a right wing. Shameful
Nobel Peace Prize needs to end. This woman cannot wipe the orange turd stains from her face enough can she…
Yes seems [I aligned with Striffler](https://www.reddit.com/r/Norway/s/27aYJsP3ph)
The Nobel Committee should simply void it as she’s clearly abandoned the price. They already told her it can’t be transferred.
They might as well have given it to Trump to begin with. Now, my country is at war with Venezuela bc of this mess
Congratulations to the people of Norway.
You’re part of this joke now.
The Nobel Peace price has not been about peace for a long time. Since 1990 there has been 12 peace prize winners that has something to do with peace or stopping war. About one third of the prizes, the rest have been political posturing about all sorts of things. usually good things, but which has nothing to do with peace.
To me this is like an Olympic gold medallist giving their medal to someone else. It means very little to me.