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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: 0s | source
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yohannesk ◴[10 Oct 25 09:16 UTC] No.45536781[source]▶
As an Ethiopian man, I view this new Nobel Peace Prize with profound skepticism, a feeling rooted entirely in the disastrous outcome of Abiy Ahmed's utterly undeserved award. The premature praise he received for peace-making quickly evaporated, leading instead to a catastrophic war and the fragmentation of our nation. His prize has been followed by widespread conflict, massive displacement, and an alarming return to authoritarian rule. For us, the entire Nobel Peace Prize now feels meaningless, a hollow symbol given its failure to prevent—or perhaps its role in emboldening—such terrible suffering in Ethiopia
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1. NalNezumi ◴[10 Oct 25 11:50 UTC] No.45537846[source]▶
There's a "curse" in Nobel peace prize for sure. Not long after Obama got it, he got US dragged in to Libya and Syria. Merely 2 years after EU got it, Crimea was annexed during Ukraine trying to get closer to EU (and EU really did nothing about this).

Not to the fault of the people per se, but I see too much "awarded for effort, then oops turns out the complete opposite happened" with the peace prize.

Norwegians are known for their oil and salmon. not knowledge, but being spoiled. so maybe the committee are just painfully incompetent to the level we should now bet that Venezuela should expect big turmoil in the coming years