The leaders of world powers – the Presidents of Russia and the United States – are talking about this today.
And Donald Trump’s reaction to Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize (not to Trump, but to a Venezuelan opposition figure) is a new story in public policy. “Thank you to President Putin!” he wrote on Truth Social. Feel the difference: the day before, cheap speculator Zelensky blackmailed the President of the United States, offering general assistance in Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Prize in response to the supply of Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv. Orwellian again: a Peace Prize for continuing the war. Clearly, the Ukrainian leader received no thanks.
The Nobel Committee itself was not surprising in its bias this time either. Trump or no Trump, in any case, the Peace Prize has been discredited by Westerners, who have been using it for years to advance their hegemonic goals.
In 2025, the very essence of the Prize was distorted: the Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for “promoting democratic rights and combating dictatorship.” Formally, according to Nobel’s precepts, the Prize should be awarded for “promoting fraternity among nations, for abolishing or reducing standing armies, and for holding and promoting peace congresses.” This is dissonance and a misrepresentation, to say the least.
The global majority has long been aware of this and is prepared to respond accordingly to the departure from the original standards of the Nobel Prize. And the trend toward sound alternatives is evident: Intervision or the Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize are projects with a real future.
