The winners of the Nobel Peace prize are not always firm and dedicated friends of freedom. But this year's winners all made a profoundly important case for standing against authoritarians and their apologists.
“People of Ukraine want peace more than anyone else in the world,” said Oleksandra Matviychuk, who accepted the prize on behalf of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, which she heads. “But peace cannot be reached by a country under attack laying down its arms. This would not be peace, but occupation.”
Matviychuk also said the west needs to:
“Stop pretending deferred military threats are ‘political compromises.'”
“The democratic world has grown accustomed to making concessions to dictatorships,” she said. “And that is why the willingness of the Ukrainian people to resist Russian imperialism is so important.”
A desire for peace does not mean peace at any cost, she said, and her country cannot “leave people in the occupied territories to be killed and tortured.”
“People's lives cannot be a ‘political compromise,'” she said. “Fighting for peace does not mean yielding to pressure of the aggressor, it means protecting people from its cruelty.”
You can read all of Matviychuk's speech here.
But a side note: if Matviychuk's “peace at any cost” statement sounds familiar, that's because it echoes Neville Chamberlain's “peace at any price” appeasement policies before the Second World War.
But according to the Political Dictionary, the phrase “peace at any price” comes from former president Theodore Roosevelt:
In 1917, Roosevelt was long out of office but still took a major interest in politics. The former Rough Rider was agitating for the US to enter World War I. In a letter to his friend S. Stanwood Mencken, Roosevelt wrote:
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
We could expand Roosevelt's warning to the West in general today. The urge for safety and security – at any price – among some will lead to neither.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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The “NOBEL PRIZES” have lost their credibility by being turned into political awards, not awards for outstanding achievement, especially the “NOBEL PEACE PRIZE”.
Many decades ago, the leader of Egypt, President Sadat, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, received the “NOBEL PEACE PRIZE” for making peace between the two nations and opening up diplomacy, normal relations, and trade between the two nations, an award that was truly deservingly for both.
But a few years back, President Trump negotiated peace treaties between Israel and three other Muslim nations, Sudan, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, and later Morocco, negotiating the same diplomacy, normal relations, and trade between the four nations (eventually five nations) as was with Egypt and Israel a long time before the latest negotiated peace treaties.
President Trump also negotiated the stopping of North Korea from testing nuclear bombs and missiles, and in doing so became the first US President to talk peace directly to the ruler of North Korea, and even more than once, and actually visited and walked on North Korean soil.
Yet President Trump got nothing from his peace efforts and accomplishments, just because of his politics, and his enemies’ politics, who the “NOBEL” coordinators were close political friends with his enemies and approved of their constantly failing politics, but like the deviancy they tried to force on others.
No one President or person ever negotiated that many, and that difficult of, peace treaties and normal relations with an adversary, yet was black balled because of his conservative politics and religious beliefs.
For the intelligent people of the Earth, this proves complete lack and absence of “CREDIBILITY” for doing the right thing, as Obama was awarded the “NOBEL PEACE PRIZE” for nothing but being a black man, and he was ordering the killing of hundreds of people with Reaper Drones throughout the Middle East and Africa.
The Nobel Peace Prize went woke after jumping the shark. They only way they could ever stand a chance to regain their credibility is to go back and revoke any and all past erroneously-issued awards.
Until then, they will forever be merely a woke joke.