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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado

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522 points pykello | 1 comments | 10 Oct 25 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
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unsupp0rted ◴[10 Oct 25 09:21 UTC] No.45536823[source]▶
Is the Nobel Peace Prize given to people who accomplished a lot as individuals (like Maria Corina Machado) or people who accomplished a lot at scale without doing much beyond a few phone calls and document-signings, like Trump?

Because a few phone calls and document-signings can bring about many orders of magnitude more "peace units" in the world, if backed by the world's largest economy and the world's most effective military at projecting power.

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1. lkramer ◴[10 Oct 25 10:39 UTC] No.45537301[source]▶
Isolated, I think his efforts in the middle east, particular around normalising Israel's relations with its neighbours (though I believe he did fuck up handling Iran because of his personal bias) could have let to a peace prize in a few years time (maybe a shared one) and certainly be more deserved than Obama's, however I agree with others that all his other actions, including threatening to invade allies, should disqualify him.