Moldovan president rejects Nobel Peace Prize nomination, says Ukrainian POWs deserve it instead (kyivindependent.com)
from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 18:44
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Moldovan President Maia Sandu rejected a proposal to nominate her for the Nobel Peace Prize on Feb. 5, saying the honor belongs to Ukrainian prisoners of war and others who risk or give their lives for peace.

Sandu’s remarks came on the same day Ukraine secured the return of 157 prisoners of war from Russian captivity in its first exchange with Moscow in nearly five months.

“I am grateful that people are paying attention to our country and value our courage and resilience, but many people have been nominated for this prize,” Sandu told Moldovan broadcaster TV8.

“Today, I was watching Ukrainian (prisoners of war) who returned home from Russia, and these are the people who deserve the Peace Prize.”

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Sandu said that the true heroes are those who sacrifice their lives or put themselves in danger for peace in their own countries, adding that she hopes peace will come to the region as soon as possible.

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WoodScientist@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 18:49 next collapse

Let the world know that in my great humility, I’m also agreeing to decline any nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

ceenote@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 18:59 next collapse

Anyone who is thinking of nominating me for the Nobel Peace Prize should nominate WoodScientist instead.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 06 Feb 23:07 collapse

I will strongly recommend your nomination in my stead as well.

Lembot_0006@programming.dev on 06 Feb 19:07 next collapse

Trump: as you should. Now give that prize to me!

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 23:18 collapse

I’m also declining nomination for the FIFA Peace Prize AND the Brownlow Medal.

elucubra@sopuli.xyz on 07 Feb 08:21 collapse

Yeah, but you don’t go as far as rejecting having your name added to the Trump Kennedy center.

tired_n_bored@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 18:57 next collapse

Maia Sandu is one of a kind

HowRu68@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 22:37 collapse

Watched an interview once of her. She seems like a real Stateswoman *, doing her best for the people.

edit* : probably stateswoman is applicable, instead of statesperson.

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz on 06 Feb 22:50 next collapse

States person?

HowRu68@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 23:03 collapse

Technically" Steatesman" but she’s a woman. So maybe Stateswoman. Yeah I’ll correct it.

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz on 06 Feb 23:10 collapse

Ah gotcha my bad. I dont have a more neutral term either, one that confers the same respect

HowRu68@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 23:28 collapse

No problem, since you pointed it out I looked it up and TIL. Lol.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 06 Feb 23:09 collapse

I bet the best people won’t quibble over naming.

RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 19:22 next collapse

This is good but does the prize even mean anything after the previous recipient begged for war and Obomber got one?

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 06 Feb 19:30 collapse

Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire’s dogs.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 19:49 next collapse

Love to give a President the Nobel Prize inside the first six weeks on the job.

Remember how well that worked out for Obama?

The largely clandestine effort, profiled in a New York Times report and a forthcoming book by Newsweek’s Daniel Klaidman, highlights a remarkable transformation for a man who campaigned four years ago as an anti-war Senator, former law professor and defender of Constitutional due process. He pushed for an end to the use of torture on terror suspects, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, and for trying detainees in federal courts. For those efforts he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yet over the past three and a half years, Obama has sat quietly “at the helm of a top secret ‘nominations’ process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical,” according to the Times. He personally vetted names on a “kill list” of targets, authorizing dozens of drone strikes even in cases with only vague and inconclusive evidence about who’s really on the ground, according to the report. Neither the evidence against the suspects nor the suspects’ identities is available for public scrutiny.

BenLeMan@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 23:48 next collapse

Look, as much as I liked Barry Obama, his pizzazz, his wit, and his eloquence, I immediately said the decision to give him a Nobel Peace prize was an idiotic one.

Despite all the big speeches he made about gun control and closing down Gitmo and healthcare and whatnot, he just. didn’t. deliver. And why would he?

He was just another establishment democrat and Wall Street panderer as well as another warmonger. Upholder of the status quo.

That’s when I knew the United States is cooked for real. Good luck voting your way out of this pickle, guys.

Thoughts and prayers from Europe.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 06 Feb 23:59 collapse

He was just one more controlled opposition President, meant to be a placeholder between destructive Republican presidents, just long enough to allow the heat to dissipate, before elevating another Republican to carry out the real agenda for the only relevant citizens.

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world on 07 Feb 01:51 collapse

Did you mean six years? Because Sandu has been the president since 2020.

Ontimp@feddit.org on 06 Feb 23:35 next collapse

Shouldn’t that price be handed out for… achieving peace?

"…who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”  

neidu3@sh.itjust.works on 06 Feb 23:50 collapse

You’d think so, but three words: Henry Fucking Kissinger

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Feb 03:48 collapse

You’ve got to be kidding me. Surely they didn’t?

neidu3@sh.itjust.works on 07 Feb 08:25 collapse

I wish I was.

The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize is often cited as one of, if not the most, controversial in the history of the award.[1][2][3] Two members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee resigned in protest, The New York Times referred to it as the “Nobel War Prize”, and Tom Lehrer stated that “political satire became obsolete”.

MrSulu@lemmy.ml on 07 Feb 09:11 next collapse

This is leadership

D_C@sh.itjust.works on 07 Feb 17:20 collapse

I’m sure a certain fat orange child rapist will be ok to take that nomination.