So let me get this straight.
Last year, there was a big hype about the Nobel peace prize, for Trump wanted it so bad, and started to claim he want to get it. Everyone repeated it and half the world rejoiced he did not get it and half was angry about it. Actually barely anyone gave a shit, except the media and social media can make enough noise to give this perception.
Coincidentally that lady from Venezuela got it, because evil Maduro. I doubt anyone can remember any other prize winners from other fields (probably the professionals of each fields). Or do we even know who were the other candidates?
https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/nominations-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-2025
> The list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize is released 50 years after the prize is awarded, in accordance with the statutes of the Nobel Foundation.
Oh.
There are a number of leaked ones on Wikipedia. Not sure if it's a reliable list.

Anyway, the whole thing sounds like a psyop to lay the foundations for a Venezuelan intervention for the United States. If Bernd remembers the US needs a general international acceptance before she starts an overt intervention:  >>/54315/  >>/54317/ . They need something that shows the pariah status of the target whom noone talks to. That gives a legal veneer for their actions.
They made people remember that the Maduro regime is anti-democratic, cheated on the election, that they are violating human rights. During the military buildup they also branded the country as narco-terrorist.
I do think Machado's Nobel victory - and the Trump hype was part of this, they used it to create an acceptance, a placidity.
I also think Trump talked about this with Putin, perhaps with India and China too, and bartered some kind of deal.
> We want Venezuela, we don't give the 'hawks to Zelensky
Or something like that.