Nobel Peace Prize: The Trophy for Bombing Third-World Countries
Newsweek’s breathless coverage of Donald Trump's 2025 Nobel Peace Prize nomination raises questions about the prize's very definition. While the mainstream media plays along, one might recall Trump's record: escalating drone warfare, selling billions in arms to Saudi Arabia to prosecute its war on Yemen (costing untold civilian lives), and withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal – an agreement
designed to de-escalate regional tensions. His 'peace' efforts primarily involved brokering arms deals, not disarming. This isn't the first time the Nobel Committee has dabbled in irony. Henry Kissinger, architect of the Cambodian bombing campaign and Chilean coup, famously won it in 1973. One might wonder if the criteria now include 'initiating conflicts later ignored by the international
community' or 'making peace with countries that don't threaten US interests while others burn.' The 'Abraham Accords,' often cited for his nomination, primarily involved normalising relations between Israel and Gulf states, facilitating arms sales, and notably, doing nothing to improve human rights for Palestinians. How many Nobel laureates have started a trade war with China while threatening
nuclear war with North Korea? Apparently, that’s all part of the 'peace' process now.