I had the opportunity to chat for a while with Oleksandra Matviichuk, who was visiting Barcelona at the invitation of CIDOB. This 42-year-old Ukrainian lawyer is the director of the Center for Civil Liberties, which is dedicated to documenting all the war crimes that Putin and the Russian army are committing in Ukraine and to defending the victims of the Russian occupation. Matviichuk was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. It's only been three and a half years, but it feels like a decade, especially now that the world's attention is focused on Iran and not Ukraine.

“Dear Jonas,” writes US President Donald Trump. “Given that your country decided not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping eight wars, I no longer feel obligated to think only of peace.” This “people,” let me emphasize, is the license my astonishment allows me, considering that, in the language of Paul Auster, the leader says he muststopped 8 Wars PLUS"I don't know if he means there's one, a war one, that he owes."stopped"Just a little.

You are a TOTAL FRAUD, a complete disgrace! I haven't given you any consideration since January 6th five years ago when you ended up handing the presidency to that sleepy Joe, who had stolen my undisputed election victory. This year I've ended EIGHT WARS!! And you brought the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan woman who hasn't done a thing and who not only lacked the honesty to step aside in my favor, but now intends to be the president of Venezuela, taking advantage of the fact that I'VE DONE ALL THE HARD WORK. This has been very LEO-like and totally UNFAIR on your part. I was lucky to receive the FIFA Peace Prize from this fabulous, intelligent, and fair man named Gianni Infantino, who gave it to me for "helping to unite the people of the planet with my exceptional and extraordinary work for peace." If it brought Messi 8 Ballon d'Or awards, why can't I have 8 NOBEL PEACE PRIZES, one for each war I've ended? By that year, I'd like Greenland, with plenty of oil, natural gas, rare earth elements, gold, diamonds, and fresh water. I'll leave the cod to the poor Danes and their ridiculous army of toy soldiers. I want Cuba too, but it will fall on its own thanks to my unprecedented strategic acumen, unmatched by any president. For Cuba, I only ask for a few resorts Like the ones I envisioned for Gaza. I don't want this chocolate cigarette-in-shoe nonsense: I'd be happy if, taking advantage of the United States' 250th anniversary this coming July 4th, I could take my face to Mount Rushmore, which is what would be fitting if we were as wise as you claim. The world respects me like never before. Don't make the same mistake with me again!! President DJT.

Donald Trump ultimately failed to win his coveted Nobel Peace Prize (at least, not in this latest edition), but this hasn't diminished his ambition to portray himself as the great global peacemaker. A month and a half ago, in Sharm el-Sheikh, he presented a document or artifact called Trump Declaration for Lasting Peace and ProsperityIt was signed behind letters bearing the slogan "Peace 2025," supposedly a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. That was a we all run Of the world leaders: no one wanted to miss the photo op of what was understood to be the end of the genocide in Palestine, and everyone who was invited shook hands with a Trump who exulted like a child on Christmas morning. In reality, as experts warned at the time, it was not yet a peace agreement, but a ceasefire that has been applied arbitrarily and highly deficiently. Under the pretext of not returning the bodies of the deceased hostages (who could have died, or also been torn to pieces, or left hanging under the rubble, during the Israeli attacks of the last two years) and other excuses from the usual repertoire against Hamas, the Israeli government has not stopped the killings of the civilian population for a single day. The latest news—which you can read in the Cristina Mas's chronicle on the ARAHe says that forensic experts who examined the bodies returned by Israel are reporting possible organ trafficking involving organs harvested from the deceased Palestinians. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is trying to obtain a presidential pardon to avoid his corruption trial, which, for him, has always been the crux of the entire conflict.

This year's prize has been marked above all by the campaign for a supposed candidacy of the US president. It hasn't escaped anyone's notice that one of the reasons Donald Trump pushed for a ceasefire in Gaza this week was the proximity of the Nobel announcement. the agreement has been reached in extremis: just the day before the Norwegian Nobel Committee make the winner public. But in the end he didn't win the award, which went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. A choice that could also satisfy Trump, as it rewards one of his allies against Nicolás Maduro's regime.

Since yesterday, the announcement of the name of the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been a source of excitement that is halfway between that generated by theThe Oscar goes to…" and the Champions League draw. The person responsible for so much interest is the usual king of the party, Donald Trump, who turns everything he touches into news: if he wins, because the stonemasons will start sculpting his face on Mount Rushmore, and if he doesn't win, to see what time he orders themarinasinvade Norway.

President Trump is pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the Gaza war, among other reasons because he is convinced he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. He boasted of having ended more than seven armed conflicts around the world and is convinced he can end the Palestinian conflict, "which has lasted 3,000 years." To begin with, if you look at the list Trump himself released of resolved conflicts, you will see that some are still active and others are more like trade and investment agreements from companies friendly to the president, who thinks more in terms of business than peacemaking.

"A woman who keeps the flame of democracy alive amidst the growing darkness." This is how the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, described Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado when he announced that she had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. This year's award—which was the subject of the defense's insistence against calling Donald Trump's candidate to offer herself as a candidate—is a call to democracy "at a time when it is under threat worldwide," as Frydnes put it. However, a call that is made while awarding an award to an ally of Donald Trump and the global far right: Machado participated via telematics at the Patriots for Europe summit convened in Madrid by the president of Vox, Santiago AbascalThe head of the Norwegian Committee praised Machado's fight against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, "accused of corruption, authoritarianism, and electoral fraud."

Donald Trump turned the Alaska and Washington summits into a grand showcase of why he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The American president lamented against Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders of the deaths on the forehead and emphasized his haste to put an "end to the killings," although he no longer sees the need for a ceasefire as a preliminary step to a peace agreement. Trump used foreign leaders as a cover to address the Norwegian Nobel Committee. And if it wasn't obvious, he clarified: "We've ended six wars, and that's not even taking into account that we've annihilated Iran's future nuclear capabilities." The next day, press secretary Karoline Leavitt increased the number to "seven wars."

The first people to understand that to deal with a megalomaniac you have to soap him up were those at the Foreign Office. And that's why the premier Starmer waited until he was sitting with Trump in the Oval Office to present him, in front of the cameras, an envelope containing a letter from King Charles III inviting him to England. Trump reacted like Pavlov's dog and immediately showed the letter to the journalists.