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Unclear what if anything is happening, on the Ukraine contact line, in the Iran direction, within South China Sea, or anywhere else, and POTUS Trump got a Nobel Peace Prize medal
So, presumably all-good
Doubtful China supplied arms and funds to Iran, as funds can go by China’s forex TT system, Iran currency intervention could have been done out of Shanghai directly or via Moscow
Rocket fuel does not go by planes
Electronic equipment anathema to Starlink maybe possibly perhaps but who knows, and could have been supplied by the Russians buying such from wherever off of Shenzhen electronics mall
A sense of disbelief gripped Norwegian media and expert community following news that Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado gave her award medal to US President Donald Trump, who had been hankering after the accolade.
“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
Trump, who has long coveted the peace prize and claims to deserve it for having resolved numerous wars during his second term, accepted the medal from the Venezuelan opposition leader at a White House meeting on Thursday. He has earlier expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The award cannot be shared or transferred, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statementlast week. It didn’t respond to phone calls and text messages seeking comment on Friday.
Machado has been shut out of Venezuela’s leadership transition since US forces ousted Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3 but kept his regime in place. Machado gave Trump the medal as “a recognition of his unique commitment with our freedom,” she said on Thursday.
María Corina Machado during a Nobel Peace Prize news conference in Oslo, on Dec. 11.Photographer: Lars Martin Hunstad/BloombergThe peace prize is arguably the world’s most prestigious award for diplomatic efforts. It’s one of five Nobel Prizes established under the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite who died in 1896.
“This is unbelievably embarrassing and damaging to one of the world’s most recognized and important prizes,” Raymond Johansen, a former Oslo mayor with the ruling Labor Party said in a Facebook post. “The awarding of the prize is now so politicized and potentially dangerous that it could easily legitimize an anti-peace prize development.
