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gab13by13

(31,346 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:52 AM 3 hrs ago

Machado Gave Away Her Nobel Peace Medal To Krasnov For Nothing

She is a great woman, but hoping that giving her medal to Krasnov would change, would win him over, was naive.

Reporters asked Krasnov if Machado should be installed as president of Venezuela since it's estimated she beat Maduro with 80% of the vote.

Krasnov's reply, after he took the award, was that Machado doesn't have the support within or the respect of the country.

Krasnov has been supporting Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro's VP, or in other words, a continuation of the corrupt administration. The only difference between Maduro and Rodriguez is that Rodriguez is willing to sell its heavy crude at cheap prices to the US which has refineries along the coast set up to refine heavy crude. Eventually the Venezuelan heavy crude will replace the heavy crude that the US is getting from Canada.

No wonder Big Oil is keeping gasoline prices low for Krasnov.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/abc-david-muir-fans-fume-have-some-respect-as-he-shares-huge-donald-trump-update/ar-AA1UkNGW?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=696a3d978a454d60b3dcf10442b4cd57&ei=12

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Machado Gave Away Her Nobel Peace Medal To Krasnov For Nothing (Original Post) gab13by13 3 hrs ago OP
Of course, he doesn't respect her for kissing his ass. Irish_Dem 3 hrs ago #1
WWIII: The one where Chamberlain got a Nobel Prize and the US joined the axis. Hugin 3 hrs ago #3
#ETTD W_HAMILTON 3 hrs ago #2
Now she's humiliated and empty handed Anxy 3 hrs ago #4
The bratty toddler got his meaningless toy. Sad. Dave Bowman 3 hrs ago #5
Pathetic - both of them Stuckinthebush 3 hrs ago #6
The Nobel committee will never admit publicly they screwed up MustLoveBeagles 2 hrs ago #10
I hope they see this as a lesson Stuckinthebush 2 hrs ago #11
She'll never get it back C_U_L8R 3 hrs ago #7
She is not a great woman malaise 2 hrs ago #8
You are right, she isn't a "great woman". Anyone who trys to elevate this degenerate who incited an insurrection lostincalifornia 2 hrs ago #14
lol!!! Oneironaut 2 hrs ago #9
. dalton99a 2 hrs ago #12
She was granted the privilege of being in His presence. tetedur 2 hrs ago #13

Irish_Dem

(80,027 posts)
1. Of course, he doesn't respect her for kissing his ass.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:56 AM
3 hrs ago

He may like it but he doesn’t respect it.

He will treat her badly just because he can do whatever he wants .

Hugin

(37,485 posts)
3. WWIII: The one where Chamberlain got a Nobel Prize and the US joined the axis.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:00 AM
3 hrs ago

Appeasement is Nazi lubricant.

Stuckinthebush

(11,197 posts)
6. Pathetic - both of them
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:17 AM
3 hrs ago

He's just a pathetic man child. He is an embarrassment to our nation.

She is pathetic in that she gave the man child a medal so she MIGHT be given the reins of power by a megalomaniac. He won't - and even if he did she will forever be marked by her citizens as a weak person. The Nobel committee really screwed up giving her a peace prize. So many other deserving people were available.

MustLoveBeagles

(14,894 posts)
10. The Nobel committee will never admit publicly they screwed up
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:28 AM
2 hrs ago

They have to be saying to each other in private.

lostincalifornia

(4,930 posts)
14. You are right, she isn't a "great woman". Anyone who trys to elevate this degenerate who incited an insurrection
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:19 AM
2 hrs ago

against our country, and tried to overturn an election is NOT A GREAT PERSON. Add to that, her support for someone who has persecuted her fellow country people by refusing to give them due process, and just deporting them, has the same mindset of Maduro.

She is an embaressment to her country, and to the Nobel Prize committee.

Oneironaut

(6,227 posts)
9. lol!!!
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:28 AM
2 hrs ago

Always remember too that the people trying to suck up to Trump are self-interested themselves. They think Trump can give them something - especially money and power.

I think Drumpf knows this and has no respect for these people because they’ll latch onto his arse like a leech. They’re all self-interested fleas.

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